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The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Multiple Dispatch | Stefan Karpinski | JuliaCon 2019
The Julia Programming Language
Julia co-creator Stefan Karpinski explains why multiple dispatch makes Julia code and types reusable across packages with so little friction. He covers sharing basic types and sharing generic algorithms.
HN commenters recommend it as the definitive explanation, from a language designer, of why multiple dispatch makes Julia's composability work.
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