For an upcoming talk: how have different fields/facets of your identity inspired you to build something technical? Was something you created based on anything non-technical that you found fascinating or passionate about?
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As a designer/illustrator I wanted to turn the worlds from my drawings into generative art. Learned about shape grammars for architecture - for that wanted to make a DSL for defining the grammars, which led me to PL design,
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…which led me to getting annoyed with Java (as somebody who liked well designed things), which ultimately led my to this weird research language called Rust, which led to a failed attempt to study CS, which led to a career in software, which lead to industrial PL research.
I still think the background in art has been incredibly useful to me, especially the art and design history and art practice stuff I learned in art school. Similar approaches transfer across to programming and research quite nicely IMO.
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Yes! Thank you
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