There seems to be a new language coming out every month, but most of them are surprisingly similar. They all focus on instructing the machine on how to do work through a series of ifs, loops, numeric calculation and object creation. Figuring out what code does requires decoding these instructions into a mental model the result it produces.

While programming languages have improved over time, we're still communicating with humans through the instruction set of a machine.

Is this the best we can do?

In this talk Robin, an earlier Elm contributor and the current lead developer of Gren, shares his ideas for the "programming language of the future".