[godot]

You're not alone. I immigrated to the US from Asia in the 90s. For many years I didn't understand spoken English fully. Arguably I still miss some words now and then, even nowadays, after over 20 years living in an English environment. I had great grades throughout high school and college here mostly thanks to having excellent reading and writing skills in English, since I came from a place in Asia that emphasized learning English since childhood. Listening to spoken English is not easy for non native speakers.

[abenedic]

> Listening to spoken English is not easy for non native speakers

Thank you for saying this. You clearly have a good understanding of English(far better than mine at least). I feel like this is an area that is glossed over. For every article that is written in english there are at least 10+ non-native speaker struggling to understand the work, who could extract something useful or help explicate the work.

[theoh]

In the case of this video, you aren't missing much. It's deliberately 'dense', according to the author, but the concept is simple.

Almost any app will involve some imperative code, but using pure functions within that, where possible, makes it easier to reason about what is going on. That's all there is to it. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Referential_transparency