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1:00: Introduction

• Paul Cantrell
• Siesta Library for Swift
• Episode 124
• Javascript Jabber: Why JavaScript Is Hard

4:20: How the language is written

• Ruby
• Swift

12:30: Synthetic Sugar

• Swift 1.0
• Double optionals

15:30: New API Guidelines

• Strings
• Fluency

21:15: Verbosity vs. Terseness 24:00: Successful Server Languages

• Python
• Garbage Collection
• Go

28:30: Problems

• Domain model
• Limitations of control

32:40: Brand new startups

• Limited users as a positive
• Client development

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