I headed to PyCon 2018 in Sydney for lots of Pythonic goodness, and then back home for Compose Melbourne, a newish FP conference.
What if there were no functions?
a modest proposal for better javascript: like "use strict" but purer.
I've written a bunch of HTML5 / javascript stuff in recent years which uses closures as a way of never actually having to traverse the DOM. It is easy, fast, works well within the Chrome debugger and reduces your reliance on jQuery (etc).
It seems, at first, that C# doesn't have first-class classes. But ...