Abstract: In the past year, Roc has gotten a new syntax, a new foundational abstraction, and a new compiler. A lot has changed! This talk is a reintroduction to the language, including how it now compares to other functional languages as well as to popular imperative languages - which it now resembles more, despite still being fully functional!
Bio: Richard is the creator of the Roc functional programming language, the author of Elm in Action from Manning Publications, and the instructor for several Frontend Masters workshops: Introduction to Elm, Advanced Elm, and Introduction to Rust. He currently works at https://zed.dev on the open-source Zed code editor.
