davearonson
Visual explanation of why we prepend instead of appending
Anybody wondering why it’s a bad idea to append to lists, when using immutable data? I took a crack at explaining it visually on the Hello World Show Live, recorded at DevConf Poland. Check out that section at https://www.youtube.com/embed/c-hdGBDD_9I?start=1792&end=2058 and let me know what you think. I’m intending to make it a much better lightning talk I can do at meetups, conferences, etc. (This one was almost totally unrehearsed due to time constraints.)
(Yes it’s static for a while at the start. Hang on. Had a bit of a momentary snag with the slides later in, but got past it. And no, that’s not me in the preview.)
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davearonson
Update: it’s been a while, so I’ve done this talk a few more times (including for an Elixir remote meetup!), so I’ve made a YouTube playlist of the versions of this talk. See Why We Prepend - YouTube for all of them (so far).
AstonJ
This bit made me chuckle Dave … no muss no fuss…
You should definitely consider doing some online courses/vids - I am sure you would make a great teacher ![]()








