Rust: Putting Ownership to Use
Niko Matsakis·2017·Curry On·47 minNiko Matsakis on Rust's ownership system — what it actually is at the type level, and how the same idea underwrites memory safety, data-race freedom, and the borrow checker's stubbornness.
Rethinking Reactivity
Rich Harris·2019·You Gotta Love FrontendRich Harris introduces Svelte 3 and argues that reactivity belongs in the compiler, not the runtime — the talk that crystallised the case for disappearing frameworks.
In The Loop
Jake Archibald·2018·JSConfAsiaJake Archibald walks through the browser event loop — tasks, microtasks, requestAnimationFrame, and the surprising ways the runtime interleaves your work with rendering.
A Cartoon Intro to WebAssembly
Lin Clark·2017·JSConfEULin Clark explains what WebAssembly actually is, why it is fast, and what it means for the browser as a runtime — in her signature illustrated style.
Data-Oriented Design and C++
Mike Acton·2014·CppConMike Acton on how modern CPUs really work, and why most of what 'clean code' calls good is actively at war with performance.
Programming Should Eat Itself
Nada Amin·2014·Strange LoopNada Amin on metaprogramming taken to its logical extreme — almost an hour of live coding through interpreters of interpreters, where the line between programs and data dissolves.
Concurrency Is Not Parallelism
Rob Pike·2012·Heroku WazaRob Pike untangles two words the industry has spent decades confusing — using Go and a stack of gophers.