Functional Geekery

In this episode I talk with David Chambers. We talk about bringing Functional Programming deeper into JavaScript and leaving the attempt at Object Oriented JavaScript behind. Our Guest, David Chambers @davidchambers on Twitter davidchambers on Github http://davidchambers.me/ Sponsors This episode is sponsored by DigitalOcean. DigitalOcean makes it quick and easy to get up running with hosting your project. New users use the promo code GEEKERY to get $10 credit when signing up. This episode is sponsored by PurelyFunctional.tv. The courses build good fundamentals and guide you to develop deep skills with the Clojure language and libraries. Listeners get a 25% discount by using the link purelyfunctional.tv/geekery. Announcements Code Mesh 2015 is going to take place on the 3rd and 4th of November, and listeners can use the code fngeekery10 to get 10% off when you register. RICON 2015 will take place on the 5th and 6th of November. Midwest.io will be taking place on November 9th and 10th. Midwest.io is a two-day conference, bringing together 300 developers for an eclectic collection of talks covering the latest trends, best practices, and research in the field of computing. For more information visit http://www.midwest.io/. LambdaDays 2016 will be taking place on the 18th and 19th of February in Kraków, Poland. The CFP and registration has opened, so make sure to visit lambdadays.org to find out more. And make sure to use code FunkyGeekz4dWin to get 10% off registration. If you have a conference related to functional programming, contact me, and I will be happy to announce it. Topics About David How David got into in Functional Programming Thinking of UI updates as a result of a function call Atlassian and Bitbucket Approaching Programming in the way on would simplify an algebraic expression Plaid CoffeScript “JavaScript has insane notions of equality” for comparison Underscore.js Ramda Ramda on GitHub “Ramda functions curry by default” and why that is useful “The last argument to a function should be the thing that is most likely to change” Ramda and usage of JavaScript Types FantasyLand Erik Meijer Functional Programming series on Channel9 Programming Languages Coursera course Learn You a Haskell Bringing Functional Programming style in JavaScript to co-workers Importance of thinking about how to sell “new” ideas to teammates and need for context Sanctuary “How am I going to empathize with my teammates?” Moving away from Object Oriented thinking in JavaScript Including a type signature when writing functions in Haskell style notation How moving to Functional JavaScript has impacted testing Creating a Functional Pipeline Using the Either type to track validation failures “JavaScript uses objects for two things”, dictionaries and structs PureScript Being able to make assumptions about what is in a valid structure Railway-Oriented Programming talk by Scott Wlaschin Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman Ramda Gitter room Sanctuary Gitter room As always, a giant Thank You goes to David Belcher for the logo design.

In this weeks episode we have a number of mini-interviews from ElixirConf 2015. I spent some time in the designated quiet room during the conference with microphone setup, and invited people to come by and share their experience of ElixirConf. Sponsors This episode is sponsored by DigitalOcean. DigitalOcean makes it quick and easy to get up running with hosting your project. New users use the promo code GEEKERY to get $10 credit when signing up. This episode is sponsored by PurelyFunctional.tv. The courses build good fundamentals and guide you to develop deep skills with the Clojure language and libraries. Listeners get a 25% discount by using the link purelyfunctional.tv/geekery. Announcements Code Mesh 2015 is going to take place on the 3rd and 4th of November, and listeners can use the code fngeekery10 to get 10% off when you register. RICON 2015 will take place on the 5th and 6th of November, and podcast listeners can use the code “Saland100” to get a $100 discount when you register before October 15th. Midwest.io will be taking place on November 9th and 10th. Midwest.io is a two-day conference, bringing together 300 developers for an eclectic collection of talks covering the latest trends, best practices, and research in the field of computing. For more information visit http://www.midwest.io/. LambdaDays 2016 will be taking place on the 18th and 19th of February in Kraków, Poland. The CFP and registration has opened, so make sure to visit lambdadays.org to find out more. And make sure to use code FunkyGeekz4dWin to get 10% off registration. If you have a conference related to functional programming, contact me, and I will be happy to announce it. Lennart Fridén @devlcsc on Twitter Journeyman tour Overview of Lennart’s talk Virtually Instructional How Lennart came to look at Elixir Stockholm Elixir Overlap between Erlang and Elixir at Stockholm Elixir “Elixir has been a marvelous trojan horse to get people to look at the BEAM” Brian Cardarella @bcardarella on Twitter Dockyard Business decisions for buying into Elixir and Phoenix Replacing a Node.js backend with Elixir Chris McCord’s talk What’s Next for Phoenix GraphQL CRDT: Datatype for the Apocalypse Chris Meiklejohn and Lasp Johnny Winn @johnny_rugger on Twitter Elixir Fountain Why Johnny came to Elixir Looked at Clojure and Erlang but didn’t stick “All of a sudden I groked everything functional” Elixir Fountain newsletter and podcast “A lot of the success of a thing is how it is marketed” #myelixirstatus on Twitter “What comes after MVC?” Chris McCord’s Phoenix talk and Jessica Kerr’s Keynote GraphQL Phoenix with Elm Elixir Fountain podcast live panel Lakeida Sprenkle Communication Services for the Deaf Being brand new to Elixir Programming in Elixir with Tests by Bruce Tate and Eric Meadows-Jönsson Bruce Tate’s keynote Jessica Kerr’s keynote Being encouraged to contribute as someone new to a community Wendy Smoak’s talk How To Contribute to Elixir and Phoenix José Valim’s keynote Composable Queries with Ecto Scott Hamilton @greeneggs614 on Twitter Dave Thomas’ presentation on Elixir at Lone Star Ruby Austin Elixir group Programming in Elixir with Tests by Bruce Tate and Eric Meadows-Jönsson “Good to get judgement on where I am” Chris McCord’s talk What’s Next for Phoenix Advanced Phoenix and Websockets Phoenix with Elm Taking Phoenix beyond the browser with iOS and Apple Watch Jessica Kerr’s keynote Looking forward to Embedded Elixir in Action Jeff Weiss @jeffweiss on Twitter Thoughts on what Jeff has seen at ElixirConf ElixirConf EU Jeff’s talk at ElixirConf EU What stood out so far at ElixirConf José Valim’s Keynote Mastering date/time handling with Elixir Phoenix training Deploying Elixir to production Puppet Puppet Labs is Hiring for Elixir http://puppetlabs.com/jobs Alan Gardner @mr_urf on Twitter Phoenix with Elm Pragmatic Studios Programming Elixir Elm tutorial from Pragmatic Studios Elm Discuss mailing list Looking for the excuse to use Elixir and Phoenix at work Cultivate Look for upcoming blog posts on Elixir and Elm @cultivatehq on Twitter Kyle Oba @mudphone on Twitter How Kyle got into Elixir Metaprogramming Elixir Programming Elixir Advanced Phoenix and Websockets Most of the time was spent in JavaScript Jamie Windsor’s talk Into Production CRDT: Datatype for the Apocalypse Keynotes The BEAM sub-“track” Looking to catching the videos from Confreaks As always, a giant Thank You goes to David Belcher for the logo design. ***Update October 27th, 2015***: Links to presentations have been added to the shownotes.

In this episode I talk with Carin Meier. We talk about her background into software development and functional programming, the McCarthy papers, Robots, her book Living Clojure, other types of computation, and more. Our Guest, Carin Meier @gigasquid on Twitter gigasquid on Github http://gigasquidsoftware.com/ Sponsors This episode is sponsored by DigitalOcean. DigitalOcean makes it quick and easy to get up running with hosting your project. New users use the promo code GEEKERY to get $10 credit when signing up. This episode is sponsored by PurelyFunctional.tv. The courses build good fundamentals and guide you to develop deep skills with the Clojure language and libraries. Listeners get a 25% discount by using the link purelyfunctional.tv/geekery. Announcements Chicago Erlang 2015 is coming up on the 10th of October, in the format of a two track, one day Erlang workshop. To find out more and to register visit www.chicagoerlang.com/. CityCode Chicago will be taking place on the 9th of October. City Code Chicago is a one day immersive technology conference for programmers to spark creativity and innovation. To find out more and to register visit chicago.citycode.io. Code Mesh 2015 is going to take place on the 3rd and 4th of November, and listeners can use the code fngeekery10 to get 10% off when you register. RICON 2015 will take place on the 5th and 6th of November, and podcast listeners can use the code “Saland100” to get a $100 discount when you register before October 15th. Midwest.io will be taking place on November 9th and 10th. Midwest.io is a two-day conference, bringing together 300 developers for an eclectic collection of talks covering the latest trends, best practices, and research in the field of computing. For more information visit http://www.midwest.io/. LambdaDays 2016 will be taking place on the 18th and 19th of February in Kraków, Poland. The CFP and registration has opened, so make sure to visit lambdadays.org to find out more. And make sure to use code FunkyGeekz4dWin to get 10% off registration. If you have a conference related to functional programming, contact me, and I will be happy to announce it. Topics About Carin How Carin came into software development Involvement with user groups Jim Weirich 4Clojure The Clojure communities interest in bringing in learnings from academics Cognitect How Ballet and Physics background transfered into software “I’m not just teaching you physics, I’m teaching you how to think” Background on getting into functional programming John McCarthy’s papers “Seven McCarthy papers in seven weeks” Elephant 2000 John Searle’s Speech Acts Ascribing Mental Qualities to Machines THE ROBOT AND THE BABY Interest in Robots Babar language Carin’s presentations on robots Real Time Robot Dance Party The Joy of Flying Robots in Clojure Living Clojure Cincy Functional Programmers Group “Training Plan” for learning Clojure Wonderland Katas clojurians Slack figwheel Clojure Applied The Joy of Clojure Mastering Clojure Macros by Colin Jones Living Clojure and ClojureScript Applicability of Living Clojure as a training plan across languages Project Euler Cincy Functional Programming Group overview FizzBuzz in Idris with nobody knowing Idris “We generally don’t have pizza […] people that show up even when there is no pizza are the hardcore functional programmers” StrangeLoop 2015 StrangeLoop 2015 videos Unconventional Programming with Chemical Computing Unconventional Programming Paradigms Gerald Sussman’s We Really Don’t Know How To Compute! Cross pollinate the academic ideas with application in industry Philip Wadler’s Propositions as Types Won’t be at ClojureConj but check it out As always, a giant Thank You goes to David Belcher for the logo design.

In this episode I talk with Tom Stuart about Computation. We talk about his background in software, his book Understanding Computation, Computation Club, and how to bring computer science ideas of mathematics and abstraction to every software developer. Our Guest, Tom Stuart @tomstuart on Twitter tomstuart on Github http://codon.com/ Sponsors This episode is sponsored by DigitalOcean. DigitalOcean makes it quick and easy to get up running with hosting your project. New users use the promo code GEEKERY to get $10 credit when signing up. This episode is sponsored by PurelyFunctional.tv. The courses build good fundamentals and guide you to develop deep skills with the Clojure language and libraries. Listeners get a 25% discount by using the link purelyfunctional.tv/geekery. Announcements ElixirConf 2015 is happening in Austin, TX on October 1st-3rd. Keynote speakers include past guests José Valim and Jessica Kerr, with over 28 speakers and over 200 guests. To check the schedule and register visit www.elixirconf.com/. Chicago Erlang 2015 is coming up on the 10th of October, in the format of a two track, one day Erlang workshop. To find out more and to register visit www.chicagoerlang.com/. CityCode Chicago will be taking place on the 9th of October. City Code Chicago is a one day immersive technology conference for programmers to spark creativity and innovation. To find out more and to register visit chicago.citycode.io. Code Mesh 2015 is going to take place on the 3rd and 4th of November, and listeners can use the code fngeekery10 to get 10% off when you register. RICON 2015 will take place on the 5th and 6th of November, and podcast listeners can use the code “Saland100” to get a $100 discount when you register before October 15th. Midwest.io will be taking place on November 9th and 10th. Midwest.io is a two-day conference, bringing together 300 developers for an eclectic collection of talks covering the latest trends, best practices, and research in the field of computing. For more information visit http://www.midwest.io/. LambdaDays 2016 will be taking place on the 18th and 19th of February in Kraków, Poland. The CFP has opened, and will be open through December 1st, 2015. Visit lambdadays.org to submit your CFP response! If you have a conference related to functional programming, contact me, and I will be happy to announce it. Topics About Tom On being a Computer Scientist Background on Graduate work at University of Cambridge Teaching undergraduates as a forced learning experience Substructural Type Systems Understanding Computation “Brain dump of all the things I think are fun and interesting” The Lambda Calculus “Computation is some kind of slightly mysterious property of the universe” Stephen Wolfram’s Cellular Automata And Complexity “This book will not get you a better job” Computational Universality Undecidability and Church-Turing Thesis The Halting Problem Gödel’s incompleteness theorems Programs as something that can be analyzed Rice’s Theorem Reception of ideas across the Ruby community “A lot of people will never sit down and learn Haskell or Scheme” Tom’s talk about monads “If you don’t know the category of the thing, it is hard to recognize things in that category” Anchoring the concept of a monad by examples of other abstract data types Futamura Projection and Partial Evaluation London Computation Club The Little Schemer The Elements of Computing Systems a.k.a From NAND to Tetris “I think this is interesting and we should be talking and thinking about it” Computation Club Slack team Computation Club mailing list computationclub on Github @computationclub on Twitter “This is why I will never be commercially successful” How to Write a Web Application in Ruby Brett Victor Chris Granger LightTable Eve About Eve “Please let me know what we can do to promote the idea of, for lack of a better word, functional geekery” “Referential Transparency should not be a dirty word” µKanren Tom’s presentation on µKanren in Ruby As always, a giant Thank You goes to David Belcher for the logo design.

In this episode I talk with Joe Barnes about Scala. We talk about coming into Functional Programming, Scalaz, Akka, Scala Conferences, Lift, and his musings about what the future of web development might look like. Our Guest, Joe Barnes @joescii on Twitter joescii on Github http://proseand.co.nz Sponsors This episode is sponsored by DigitalOcean. DigitalOcean makes it quick and easy to get up running with hosting your project. New users use the promo code GEEKERY to get $10 credit when signing up. This episode is sponsored by PurelyFunctional.tv. The courses build good fundamentals and guide you to develop deep skills with the Clojure language and libraries. Listeners get a 25% discount by using the link purelyfunctional.tv/geekery. Announcements Code Mesh 2015 is going to take place on the 3rd and 4th of November, and listeners can use the code fngeekery10 to get 10% off when you register. Chicago Erlang 2015 is coming up on the 10th of October, in the format of a two track, one day Erlang workshop. To find out more and to register visit www.chicagoerlang.com/. CityCode Chicago will be taking place on the 9th of October. City Code Chicago is a one day immersive technology conference for programmers to spark creativity and innovation. To find out more and to register visit chicago.citycode.io. ElixirConf 2015 is happening in Austin, TX on October 1st-3rd. Keynote speakers include past guests José Valim and Jessica Kerr, with over 28 speakers and over 200 guests. To check the schedule and register visit www.elixirconf.com/. If you have a conference related to functional programming, contact me, and I will be happy to announce it. Topics About Joe Barnes How Joe came into Scala Martin Odersky’s Functional Programming Principles in Scala HuntFunc “Everything is an expression” Desire for immutability in Java Case Classes in Scala Extensible Pattern Matching in Scala unapply function Transition from Java to Scala Migration to Scala from Java Experience with the different styles of Scala doobie Scalaz Bringing Scala in to a team Including Scala into projects SBT Scala on different versions of the JVM Scala on Java8 The JVM is Nominally Typed JVM ClassLoader Akka Actor Model Joe’s “breakup” with Akka Joe’s rundown of Akka the Good Parts Principles of Reactive Programming Joe’s Conference circuit ScalaDays Scala By The Bay ScalaWorld Joe’s blog series on Types ScalaJS TypeSafe Joe’s presentations/articles in No Fluff Just Stuff PureScript “Where are things headed in the web development world?” “There’s too much client side rendering” and thinking about other parts of the world Node.js ClojureScript Nashorn Lift Scala web framework Packer Terraform “I love talking about software” Episode 8 with Jessica Care As always, a giant Thank You goes to David Belcher for the logo design.

In this episode I talk with Phil Freeman on PureScript. We cover his reason for creating PureScript, how it differs between other languages that compile to JavaScript, PureScript Conf 2015, the future of PureScript, and different ways to get started with PureScript. Our Guest, Phil Freeman @paf31 on Twitter paf31 on Github http://functorial.com/ Sponsors This episode is sponsored by DigitalOcean. DigitalOcean makes it quick and easy to get up running with hosting your project. New users use the promo code GEEKERY to get $10 credit when signing up. This episode is sponsored by PurelyFunctional.tv. The courses build good fundamentals and guide you to develop deep skills with the Clojure language and libraries. Listeners get a 25% discount by using the link purelyfunctional.tv/geekery. Announcements Code Mesh 2015 is going to take place on the 3rd and 4th of November, and listeners can use the code fngeekery10 to get 10% off when you register. Chicago Erlang 2015 is coming up on the 10th of October, in the format of a two track, one day Erlang workshop. To find out more and to register visit www.chicagoerlang.com/. CityCode Chicago will be taking place on the 9th of October. City Code Chicago is a one day immersive technology conference for programmers to spark creativity and innovation. To find out more and to register visit chicago.citycode.io. ElixirConf 2015 is happening in Austin, TX on October 1st-3rd. Keynote speakers include past guests José Valim and Jessica Kerr, with over 28 speakers and over 200 guests. To check the schedule and register visit www.elixirconf.com/. If you have a conference related to functional programming, contact me, and I will be happy to announce it. Topics About Phil Freeman PureScript DICOM Grid Haskell TypeScript Need for Sum Types and Types around Strings First version released around end of 2013 SlamData Sum Types vs Product Types PureScript compilation going directly to JavaScript JavaScript interop and FFI (Foreign Function Interface) DefinitelyTyped Underscore.js GHCJS “PureScript is a better CoffeeScript, not a Haskell for the web” Differences from Haskell Halogen library Elm Functional Reactive Programming Roy Brian McKenna PureScript Conf 2015 QuickCheck port for PureScript Getting started with PureScript PureScript by Example Project Suggestions page on PureScript wiki PureScript Contrib organization on Github Near term future of PureScript Improve error messages in PureScript Improve compiler speed Google Summer of Code and PureScript Exhaustiveness Checker for PureScript Allow to target multiple platforms for backend Schedule for looking to release milestones Looking for improving the editor support Pulp by Bodil Stokke #purescript on IRC PureScript Google Group Brian McKenna’s talk at CUFP As always, a giant Thank You goes to David Belcher for the logo design.

In this episode I talk with Jim Freeze about his knack for getting into communities early, ElixirConf, PhoenixFramework training, organizing conferences, and more. Our Guest, Jim Freeze @jimfreeze on Twitter jfreeze on Github Sponsors This episode is sponsored by DigitalOcean. DigitalOcean makes it quick and easy to get up running with hosting your project. New users use the promo code GEEKERY to get $10 credit when signing up. This episode is sponsored by PurelyFunctional.tv. The courses build good fundamentals and guide you to develop deep skills with the Clojure language and libraries. Listeners get a 25% discount by using the link purelyfunctional.tv/geekery. Announcements Code Mesh 2015 is going to take place on the 3rd and 4th of November, and listeners can use the code fngeekery10 to get 10% off when you register. Chicago Erlang 2015 is coming up on the 10th of October, in the format of a two track, one day Erlang workshop. To find out more and to register visit www.chicagoerlang.com/. CityCode Chicago will be taking place on the 9th of October. City Code Chicago is a one day immersive technology conference for programmers to spark creativity and innovation. To find out more and to register visit chicago.citycode.io. ElixirConf 2015 is happening in Austin, TX on October 1st-3rd. Keynote speakers include past guests José Valim and Jessica Kerr, with over 28 speakers and over 200 guests. To check the schedule and register visit www.elixirconf.com/. If you have a conference related to functional programming, contact me, and I will be happy to announce it. Topics Jim Freeze’s early adopter history Prag Dave Thomas’ post on Elixir Programming Ruby Programming Elixir Starting conferences in the “early” days of languages Background in starting LoneStar Ruby regional conference “I don’t want someone else to start and Elixir Conference” “Interesting to see everyone meeting for the first time” Erlang Solutions ElixirConf EU Next ElixirConf EU to be in Berlin ElixirConf 2014 videos “A lot of everybody not quite understanding what they had” WhatsApp being bought by Facebook for $19 Billion What this year’s ElixirConf is looking like from speaker submissions The community is realizing how the BEAM works and what the BEAM is Integrating Phoenix and Elm Bleacher Report talk at ElixirConf EU Advice for submitting a talk to a conference Advice for putting on events Chad Fowler’s How to Run a Small Conference Phoenix Framework Training Chris McCord’s promo video for Phoenix Training Jim and Chris McCord on Elixir Fountain Quill library Mathematica and WolframAlpha Wrote a Google Wave style app in a small amount of time Plug Cowboy Jim Freeze’s Elixir Videos Phoenix Training feedback on future training sessions Idea of a condensed version of the Phoenix Training Phoenix 1.0 A giant Thank You to David Belcher for the logo design.

In this episode I talk with Matthew Flatt about the history of Racket, different things he has worked on in Racket over the years, and a small glance forward at the near future of the Racket language. Our Guest, Matthew Flatt On the web On Github Sponsors This episode is sponsored by DigitalOcean. DigitalOcean makes it quick and easy to get up running with hosting your project. New users use the promo code GEEKERY to get $10 credit when signing up. This episode is sponsored by PurelyFunctional.tv. The courses build good fundamentals and guide you to develop deep skills with the Clojure language and libraries. Listeners get a 25% discount by using the link purelyfunctional.tv/geekery. Announcements Code Mesh 2015 is going to take place on the 3rd and 4th of November, and listeners can use the code fngeekery10 to get 10% off when you register. Chicago Erlang 2015 is coming up on the 10th of October, in the format of a two track, one day Erlang workshop. To find out more and to register visit www.chicagoerlang.com/. CityCode Chicago will be taking place on the 9th of October. City Code Chicago is a one day immersive technology conference for programmers to spark creativity and innovation. To find out more and to register visit chicago.citycode.io. ElixirConf 2015 is happening in Austin, TX on October 1st-3rd. Keynote speakers include past guests José Valim and Jessica Kerr, with over 28 speakers and over 200 guests. To check the schedule and register visit www.elixirconf.com/. If you have a conference related to functional programming, contact me, and I will be happy to announce it. Topics About Matthew Flatt Matthew’s intro to LISP Teaching beginning programming in college Origin of Racket PLT Scheme/Dr Scheme Structure and Intrepretation of Computer Programs Multiple dialects in Racket Arc variant Dr. Racket Evaluation model of functional programming Focus on language design Typed Racket Adding types at the granularity of modules Matthew on the Cognicast (Episode 61 and Episode 84) Updating the macro system Hygenic macros Examples of macros generating macros “You want to be able to look at an expression and say what it means” Racket’s packaging system Matthew’s plans going forward for working on Racket Runtime support on multiple platforms Growth of Racket over the past 20 years pict3D pollen for typesetting Strange Loop 2015 RacketCon 2015 Format of RacketCon Visibility into the usage of Racket in the community Resources for starting in Racket racket-lang.org Racket Guide Racket Reference Racket Mailing list Racket IRC channel Racket Slack channel Realm of Racket Land of LISP How to Design Programs A giant Thank You to David Belcher for the logo design.

This is part two of a number of mini interviews I did at LambdaConf 2015. While I was there, I setup my laptop and microphone off to the side for a bit and recorded episodes with anybody who was interested in a mini interview. Sponsors This episode is sponsored by PurelyFunctional.tv. For high quality videos on Clojure, from an intro to Clojure to an in depth look at core.async, Eric Normand has you covered. Videos are downloadable allowing them to be viewed offline and at your leisure, and include exercises to help ensure your learning through interaction. Listeners get a 25% discount off everything with coupon code *GEEK*. Visit http://purelyfunctional.tv/geekery, and make sure to thank them for being a sponsor. Announcements Code Mesh 2015 is going to take place on the 3rd and 4th of November, and listeners can use the code fngeekery10 to get 10% off the two days of conference when you register. Kats Conf 15 is going to take place on the 12th of September in 2015. Co-organized by past guest Andrea Magnorsky, this is a conference that looks to impress. Topics Shakrah Yves @shakrahyves Shakrah’s background Clojure Bridge Sharon Steed Haskell for the Web Feedback for the community from a newcomer Everyone was open and welcoming Interest in Haskell and Clojure Brian Troutwine @bltroutwine How to approach building a fault-tolerant system 8 Fallacies of Distributed Computing Realtime embedded systems Systems Theory How to structure the internet/ARPANet Early distributed systems theory about relational databases Microservices and distributed systems NTP (Network Time Protocol) Mathematics and Programming Study NTP; read the NTP RFCs from start to finish http://troutwine.us Pawel Szulc @rabbitonweb Overview of Pawel’s talk on Monads Douglas Crockford’s “Curse of the Monad” Openness of people at LambdaConf 2015 Wide variety of talks on different languages The parallels between Scala and Clojure Richard Feldman @rtfeldman DreamWriter Path to Functional Programming and path to Elm CoffeeScript JavaScript to CoffeeScript to Elm transition Elm’s signals and actions Catching up with the progress of ClojureScript and PureScript Aysylu Greenberg @aysylu22 4Clojure Cogincast episode with Aysylu Loom GraphViz About her talk on Loom Aysylu’s Loom talk at Clojure West 2014 Emily language Rust Virtual file system talk Lisp Flavoured Erlang A giant Thank You to David Belcher for the logo design.

This is part one of a number of mini interviews I did at LambdaConf 2015. While I was there, I setup my laptop and microphone off to the side for a bit and recorded episodes with anybody who was interested in a mini interview. Sponsors This episode is sponsored by PurelyFunctional.tv. For high quality videos on Clojure, from an intro to Clojure to an in depth look at core.async, Eric Normand has you covered. Videos are downloadable allowing them to be viewed offline and at your leisure, and include exercises to help ensure your learning through interaction. Listeners get a 25% discount off everything with coupon code GEEK. Visit http://purelyfunctional.tv/geekery, and make sure to thank them for being a sponsor. Topics Brian McKenna @puffnfresh Overview of PureScript Differences between PureScript and Haskell Idris Dependent Types and Equality Idempotent Functions and Involutions Barrier to Entry of Idris Best way to get into Idris is via Haskell brianmckenna.org brian@brianmckenna.org John De Goes John’s programming background SlamData Organizing a conference Inspired by the passion of people that came to LambdaConf 2014 The cross-language friendships formed Amazed by the number of languages and experience levels PureScript Conf Why PureScript Possibility of niche language workshops pre LambdaConf 2016 Xan Women Who Code Paige Bailey’s workshop on Clojure Highlights of the conference so far Programming and Math talk Perspective on the functional programming community at LambdaConf Interest in Clojure and Scala Matt Farmer Elemica Scala and Clojure Why pursuing new and cutting edge technologies is worth while Paul Phillips on a virtual file system. Farmdawg Nation @farmdawgnation “Be here next year” Brooke Zelenka Vancouver Functional Programmers meetup Idris and Dependent Types Algebraic Data Types Chris Allen on teaching programming Early release of Haskell Programming @expede Zeeshan Lakhani The Meaning of LFE Tile from Fogus Learnings from learning Lisp Flavored Erlang Duncan McGreggor Robert Virding Good interop with QuickCheck already lfetool for creating projects Feel the power of both the LISP and Erlang worlds Zeeshan’s Conflict Resolution Data Types lightning talk Merging based on causality Still new research on CRDTs going on Version Vectors and Eventual Consistency Sean Cribbs’ A Brief History of Time in Riak presentation Papers We Love Keep people talking about research from both academia and industry Shouldn’t lose track of research that is going on or happened @zeeshanlakhani Check out footnotes from the slides A giant Thank You to David Belcher for the logo design.