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For those who don't know; LtU is a programming language design treasure trove. It has been around for 20(?) years.

It's a great place for curious minds that like to explore and discuss new ideas and go down less trotthen paths.

Highly recommend, especially if you're considering to design a language of your own.

Yes, along with the C2 wiki it is one of the best places to discuss classic but currently untrendy ideas in PLT: https://wiki.c2.com

Not really a place for discussion, but https://okmij.org/ftp is hands down the best place on the internet if you're into PLT.

At some point we were joking at ICFP that we might as well rename it into Oleg fan club. (I think that year he had contributed either directly or indirectly to a particularly large number of papers.)

Sure, Oleg Kiselyov, the owner of that site, is a very frequent poster at Lambda the Ultimate and entries on his site are frequently discussed there.

Oleg's tarpit is awesome. Some of my best value in learning has come from going down rabbit holes there.

The content is amazing indeed but with a “that’s out private club” feel to it. It’s not very inviting to new comers, most of its links on the footer or get started are dead.

All in all, charming in its way. I’ve been bumping into it every now and then for the past decades, being fascinated by the discussions, while never having consider to sign-up

... for functional programming languages, I suppose.

That's definitely the focus but they're not fundamentalists – even if you work primarily in non-FP languages you'll learn plenty from following along and as a community of serious users they're quite honest about areas where FP falls short or presents optimization or usability challenges.

Other paradigms have been discussed iirc. It's not closed minded.

The vast majority of the interesting PL research in the last few decades has been in the FP domain. It's no surprise that Rust, which borrows many ideas from functional languages, is loved year after year.

I actually was part of the discussion of programming language design on that site before over a decade ago, but the anti-OO and especially the anti-C & anti-C++ sentiment was so strong, I was forced to quit.

They openly ridiculed anyone that supported the non-functional programming languages over the functional ones.

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