--- title: In Search of Silver Bullets for Polyglots subtitle: My talk at the Pivorak 33 meetup in Lviv on April 20, 2018. date: '2018-04-20T18:00:00Z' dateEnd: '2018-04-20T22:00:00Z' event: Pivorak 33 eventUrl: https://pivorak.com/talks/in-search-of-silver-bullets-for-polyglots location: Lviv, Ukraine tags: - polyglot programming - programming projects: - dogma summary: An examination of some force multipliers to reduce the cognitive load of polyglot programming. abstract: Frontends in JavaScript, backends in Ruby, Elixir, Go, or Java. Apps in Dart, Kotlin, and Swift. The right tools for the job at hand, or fashions and fads? Few of us are coding in only a single programming language any longer. Monoculture is dead and buried. Like it or not, we are all polyglot programmers now. However, this trend has come at a huge cognitive cost. We will examine some semi-crazy force multipliers to reduce that cognitive load, enable network effects to cross languages, and perhaps manage to preserve investments in code for years to come in our rapidly shifting industry. video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VXg6qYKxIUw slides: https://speakerdeck.com/arto/in-search-of-silver-bullets-for-polyglots-at-pivorak-33 pdf: https://speakerd.s3.amazonaws.com/presentations/a210c9304f8b4e9ca85620c67b7bea4c/Silver_Bullets_for_Polyglots_at_Pivorak_33.pdf image: "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/artob/ar.to/master/src/content/talks/2018/04/talk-at-pivorak-33.jpg" ---