Everything I've Learnt from Russel Winder's Talks, in 5 Minutes (A Tribute)

PyConUK 2019 lightning talk. Russel Winder has been a participant at every PyConUK, but was unable to attend the 2019 conference. His presence was sorely missed, and this light-hearted tribute attempted to distill the key points of his previous talks. Although the talk had a lack of squirrels.

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1. Everything I've Learnt From Russel Winder's Talks, in 5 Minutes (A Tribute) John Chandler @john_chandler
2. Russel Winder
3. Author of such talks as...
4. Or the classic...
5. "I like to make servers sweat"
6. Concurrency • Same linguistic roots as "concussion", as in "my brain hurts" • Breaking tasks into independently executed units of work
7. Parallelism • Executing work in parallel • Or hoofing things off to the infrastructure team and making them run it faster
8. You shouldn't use Python... • Use Chapel - https://chapel-lang.org/ • Run "Hello World" on a supercomputer cluster! • Before you get asked who you are and how you got into the facility
9. Or maybe... • Use D - https://dlang.org/ • It's like C but one better
10. Prefer Java? • Don't • Use Kotlin - https://kotlinlang.org/ • It's like Java, but better
11. Enjoy extensive compiler errors? • Choose Rust - https://www.rust-lang.org/ • It's like OCaml for C/C++ programmers
12. Still want to use Python? • Use NumPy - https://numpy.org/ • Use processes • Don't use threads
13. Thank You • Use Groovy (Russel says so)