Functional Geekery Episode 96 - Erik Svedäng

In this episode I talk with Erik Svedäng. We talk his background in functional programming, game development, and creating Carp, a statically typed Lisp for use in game development.

Our Guest, Erik Svedäng

https://eriksvedang.com/
@e_svedang on Twitter
eriksvedang on Github
Carp on Github

Conference Announcements

Elm Europe will be taking place June 8th and 9th in Paris, France. Visit http://elmeurope.org/ for more information and to register.

Erlang User Conference 2017 will be taking place June 8th and 9th in Stockholm, Sweden. Visit http://www.erlang-factory.com/euc2017 for more information and to register.

ZuriHac 2017 will be taking place in Zurich on the 9th-11th of June. For more information, and to register visit https://zurihac.info/

Oslo Elm Day is a one-day conference about Elm taking place June 10th in Oslo, Norway. Visit https://osloelmday.no/ for more information and to register.

Curry On Barcelona will be taking place June 19-20th. For more information, visit http://www.curry-on.org/2017/.

O’Reilly Fluent Conference will be taking place June 19–22, 2017 in San Jose, California. Visit http://www.oreilly.com/pub/cpc/61309 to find out more and to register, and use code USRG for 20% off.

EuroClojure will be taking place in Berlin, Germany on July 20th & 21st. Visit http://2017.euroclojure.org/ for more information and to keep updated.

BusConf will be taking place the 3rd-5th of August in Frankfurt, Germany. Registration is open, and more information can be found at http://www.bus-conf.org/.

The Strange Loop coming! It will be held in St. Louis, MO on September 28-30, 2017 at the Peabody Opera House. To submit your CfP, visit http://thestrangeloop.com/.

Open FSharp will be taking place the 28th-29th of September in San Francisco, California. Visit openfsharp.org for more information and to register.

LambdaWorld will be taking place in Cadiz, Spain on October 26th and 27th. For more information visit and to keep updated visit http://www.lambda.world/.

If you have a conference related to functional programming, contact me, and I will be happy to announce it.

Announcements

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Topics [@4:50]

About Erik
Carp Language
Desire to make a game
How Erik was exposed to functional programming
Else Heart.Break()
Putting a programming language inside a game
Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs
Fascination with programming and human languages
Fitting functional programming ideas into game development
Dr. Racket
LINQ
Foundation for starting a new language to do game development with
Clojure
Quill
Haskell
Gloss
F#
Unity
Reasons behind combining types and a Lisp in Carp
Integrating Types and Macros
Typed Racket
Clojure.typed
Lessons in language design for game engine loop performance levels
Rust
Memory management in Carp
Interactivity in developing a game in Carp
Wondering how much should Algebraic Data Types should be brought into a Lisp
Current state of Carp
Where to find out more about Carp
Carp on Gitter
Research.md in Carp repository
Type-Driven Development with Idris

As always, a giant Thank You goes to David Belcher for the logo design.