Just presented my latest paper "A case for feminism in programming language design" which was surely the scariest paper to present ever, as it is such a personal exploration of what it means to research programming languages, but I am very proud of it!
Here is the paper and blog post, a video will be available later!
@Felienne @cfbolz this is the most insightful (and well-presented) sermon I've watched in a _long_ time¹; I might have been a convert already, but have never seen such things articulated/connected quite this convincingly - thank you very much for your work! should be obligatory for anyone in this field
(also, TIL Hedy; glad to know that exists!)
¹ so much so that, despite not being much of a video person in the first place, I consciously decided to suffer through egregiously obtrusive YT ads
@Felienne Great talk! I watched the live stream. Agree that the field needs to challenge and broaden its own methods rather than just try to invite people in. I've regularly hit on the strange argument that programming language design _must_ not involve any interaction with the outside world.
At the end of the day I suppose if the field can't open up, it can't meet any of its aims. Clearly you can't make more humane systems while maintaining culture that actively excludes much of humanity by gender, and without exploring human factors. I guess my question is, is it better to just give up on problematic fields and make a new interdisciplinary one from scratch, that's healthier? I guess the academic metric game works against this but I think the payoff could be huge..
(That first 'question' was astonishing, session chairs need training to call out and shut down disrespectful timewasters ASAP!)
@Felienne in language, social organisation or culture. So based on this i think the thesis along the lines of: "We could design better programming languages if we had more indigenious/female/non-hegemonic voices" would be hard to support empircally and even hard to falsify.
Even if some culture had a good cultural practice in thinking about distributed parallelism and multiple perspectives that arrive from it, it is not obvious this could lead to a better PL.
Overall inspiring but i do not
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