I’ve just watched this presentation by Wojciech Ogrodowczyk about Going Polyglot the Easy Way.

The slides used during the presentation can be found here.

These are notes to myself taken while watching the presentation:

• It’s better if you can use the language you are learning in your daily job than spending time om evenings and weekends.
• Look an opportunity to introduce the new language in your job.
• Use benchmarks to prove that the language fits the job.
• Do small changes: show results fast / throw away code
• Internal tool is a good place to start: issues will be reported / users will be forgiving
• Short-live code (i.e. migration code) is another good place to start.
• Do not mess around with mission critical systems
• Some places where introduce the new language:
  • Publish / Subscribe
  • SOA
• Learn something outside of your comfort zone: i.e. if you are used to backend learn a front end language (ELM, Clojurescript)
• ELM has “time travel” capabilities: you can record sessions & reply it later: debugging / triaging
• Fix vs Growth mindset