[justin66]

I really respect that you provide transcripts. It's terribly important for accessibility and for getting what people have said into the various search engines.

I was sad to hear that Crockford is not aiming to be the author of "the next language" anymore, but I wonder how sincere that really is. His thoughts on actor-based languages are interesting.

[adamgordonbell]

Thanks!

Crockford's thoughts on actors are really interesting. I tried to pull them apart but I didn't get very far and ended up not including them in the episode.

What he is envisioning is not exactly like Erlang but not exactly like Scheme. He said that Carl Hewitt had a lot of ideas and they were hard to unpack.

If you're interested though, I would reach out to him. He is very approachable and excited to talk to people with ideas for new ways of making things simple.

[ryukafalz]

I do wish some more details about his current thoughts on actors had been included, though I can understand if they were hard to tease out. I would guess that may go back to his work on Electric Communities as E was a message passing system. Would be interested in hearing more of where his mind is on actors today.

The closest thing we have right now I think is Spritely Goblins, though that is Scheme. (Not coincidentally, one of the other Electric Communities co-founders is also a Spritely Institute co-founder: https://spritely.institute/about/)

[justin66]

The design of the language he is (was?) working on is here:

http://www.crockford.com/misty/

There are a few talks from a few months ago on Youtube that detail some of the rationale behind it.

[ryukafalz]

Oh cool, thanks for the pointers!

[hestefisk]

Just wanted to say your podcasts are really good. Many podcasters aim for quantity over quality; with you it’s the other way around. Thank you!