Adam Nelson

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I'm a professional and hobbyist software developer interested in esoteric programming languages, type systems, decentralized social media, and tons of other nerd stuff.

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An Object-Oriented Language for the '20s

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Object-oriented programming is out of fashion now, and it has been for a while. Rarely are new programming languages intentionally object-oriented. And there are good reasons for this: OO often requir…

Maybe Everything Is a Coroutine

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I was inspired, after reading the excellent blog post Let Futures Be Futures, by the author’s thought experiment of a language in which all functions are coroutines and this is used to express asynchr…