From valley software engineer to Roc’s language creator

Roc is a new purely functional programming language created by Richard Feldman. Richard met Evan Czaplicki, the creator of the Elm. After many discussion, Richard decided to create his own language: the Roc. His goal was to create a back-end language that could adapt to Elm, while being fast, user-friendly and functional.In this podcast, we'll discuss different points of Richard's life, regarding his childhoog, his early days in the tech eco-system, and his views about languages in the Valley. We also talked about ‘survival mode’ of the Valley eco-system, which allows startup to be able to build product very fast. And of course the idea of functional programming paradigm.We also talked about the genesis of the creation of the Roc language, its progress and vision. Throughout the episode, Richard shares his vision about Roc’s future, as well as the key concepts and notions he had to overcome in order to create a functional programming language.