The universe in a single arrow: A live dive into the lambda calculus - Anjana Vakil | JSHeroes 2019

You know that a tiny anonymous function, like a JS arrow function, can be useful when you’re feeling too lazy to think up a good name. But did you know that this humble little arrow can summon one of the most powerful & elegant abstractions in the history of computer science?
The lambda calculus lets us represent our programs - all their logic and data - with nothing but pure, anonymous functions. Booleans, numbers, operators, control flow, data structures… an arrow can do it all! In this session we'll live-code our way to a deeper understanding & admiration of the computational power of the lambda, an abstraction fundamental to functional programming.

[@frontend-warrior]

The way she represented the concepts is fabulous. Her teaching and presentational skills are exceptional.❣

[@halian.vilela]

What a joy! Thanks for this wonderful presentation Anjana!

[@seyyedkhandon]

Wow, That was super weird and cool at the same time mind blowing😍❤

[@bebro2075]

Can we please have the Slide. I wanna check out the Links at the end of the slide 33:25

[@PinguinoSod]

2:48 I thought she was going to say of half-life videogame xddddd