bdgeund

Yet more context. DeGoes was targeted for "cancellation" by members of certain scala communities. His response has been to, with impressive success, create his own community with its own implementations of common libraries.

It's not hard to imagine that he's signalling here that his community will attempt to implement its own version of some fundamental platform libraries or systems.

Fwiw, I've been a scala dev for years and I think his analysis of what works and what doesn't in the ecosystem is quite accurate.

There are a ton of post hoc justifications for slides here. Ability to control the audience's rate of uptake of info aside, I think that slides are a cultural norm for presenting info in business presentations that predate computers and were the natural mode for the available early av equipment. Sweating Bullets, a biographical account of the early days of power point, includes some interesting description of what things were like pre-computer.