In this episode I talk with Evan Hubinger. We talk his introduction to programming, creating the Coconut language, building Coconut as additive to Python 3, what makes a good language, and much, much more.Our Guest, Evan Hubinger@evhub on GithubCoconutCoconut on GithubConference AnnouncementsElm Europe will be taking place June 8th and 9th in Paris, France. Visit http://elmeurope.org/ for more information and to register. Erlang User Conference 2017 will be taking place June 8th and 9th in Stockholm, Sweden. Visit http://www.erlang-factory.com/euc2017 for more information and to register.ZuriHac 2017 will be taking place in Zurich on the 9th-11th of June. For more information, and to register visit https://zurihac.info/Oslo Elm Day is a one-day conference about Elm taking place June 10th in Oslo, Norway. Visit https://osloelmday.no/ for more information and to register.Curry On Barcelona will be taking place June 19-20th. For more information, visit http://www.curry-on.org/2017/.O’Reilly Fluent Conference will be taking place June 19–22, 2017 in San Jose, California. Visit http://www.oreilly.com/pub/cpc/61309 to find out more and to register, and use code USRG for 20% off.EuroClojure will be taking place in Berlin, Germany on July 20th & 21st. Visit http://2017.euroclojure.org/ for more information and to keep updated.BusConf will be taking place the 3rd-5th of August in Frankfurt, Germany. Registration is open, and more information can be found at http://www.bus-conf.org/.The Strange Loop CfP is open! It will be held in St. Louis, MO on September 28-30, 2017 at the Peabody Opera House. To submit your CfP, visit http://thestrangeloop.com/.LambdaWorld will be taking place in Cadiz, Spain on October 26th and 27th. For more information visit and to keep updated visit http://www.lambda.world/.If you have a conference related to functional programming, contact me, and I will be happy to announce it.AnnouncementsSome of you have asked how you can support Functional Geekery, in that vein,Functional Geekery now has a Patreon Page.If that is one of the ways you would like to show your support, you canfind out more at https://www.patreon.com/fngeekery.Topics [@About EvanCoconutHarvey Mudd CollegePythonHaskellHow Even first was exposed to programmingHow Even first was exposed to functional programmingBeing exposed to Haskell in High SchoolReasonability of functional programsJavaScriptCoffeeScriptTypeScriptFoundations from Python to learning HaskellView of functional programming languages in college with previous exposureRacketWhat the Harvey Mudd professors get right teaching functional programming“You don’t need to go wholesale to functional programming”What set the stage for the idea to write a languageFirst pass at writing a programming language on PythonRabbitWhat helped inform lessons learned from first attempt at writing a language“You have to write a compiler, not an interpreter”Importance of readability of a languageFlowRealizing the importance of building additive to Python 3BabelSix2to33to2What makes a good language“Code gets read more frequently than it gets written”“We are going to do what Python did for imperative programming”Readability vs FamiliarityCompiling from Coconut to Universal PythonInter-operability between Coconut and any Python codeSupporting Tail Call OptimizationImmutability in CoconutInter-operability with math librariesNumPyPipeline operator in CoconutParsing and compilationPyparsingUndebt: How We Refactored 3 Million Lines of CodeMaturity level of CoconutIntroducing type checking to CoconutmypyIPythonJupyterOverview of the state of type checking in Python with mypyFuture things to look for in CoconutPyCon 2017undebt, refactoring in PythonCoconut on GithubCoconut tutorialCoconut DocumentationCoconut Gitter chatAs always, a giant Thank You goes to David Belcher for the logo design.