Thread by @jessitron

Yay it’s @palvaro!
Who says “I don’t belong here”
And then learns he lied about being a PL researcher
#QConSf

For a long time @palvaro convinced himself not to design a language.

But then he really wanted to write correct and debuggable distributed systems.

And then there was some fascinating correspondence between logic and complexity
And he started trying to squeeze a language smaller

Sometimes the impact of a language is the change it makes in you.