Functional Programming for Pragmatists • Richard Feldman • GOTO 2021

This presentation was recorded at GOTO Copenhagen 2021. #GOTOcon #GOTOcph
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Richard Feldman - Functional Programming Language Expert & Author of "Elm in Action"

ABSTRACT
Do you care more about how well code works than how conceptually elegant it feels? Are you more interested in how effectively you can build and maintain software than how buzzword-compliant it is? Then this is the talk for you!

People like functional programming for different reasons. Some like it for the conceptual elegance, or the mathematical properties. Richard? He likes to build things. He likes it when the software he builds works well and is easy to maintain. For the past decade he's been using functional programming both professionally and as a hobbyist, and has found it has helped him ship higher quality software in less time than in the decade he spent writing object-oriented code before.
In this talk, he'll share the practical benefits he's enjoyed in FP, and the benefits other pragmatists [...]

TIMECODES
00:00 Intro
04:17 Outline
04:31 Scope: What is functional programming?
06:32 Performance
06:51 Scope: Pure functions
08:55 Performance: Caching
10:57 Performance: Precomputing
12:14 Performance: Parallelizing
15:00 Performance: Performance drawbacks
19:02 Development
19:32 Development: Testing
22:26 Development: Revising
25:49 Development: Debugging
31:18 Development: Development drawbacks
32:35 Ecosystem
38:09 Summary
40:15 Outro

Download slides and read the full abstract here:
https://gotocph.com/2021/sessions/1973

RECOMMENDED BOOKS
Richard Feldman • Elm in Action • https://amzn.to/387kujI
Jeremy Fairbank • Programming Elm • https://amzn.to/2WhZCE8
Wolfgang Loder • Web Applications with Elm • https://amzn.to/3jblQ3q
Cristian Salcescu • Functional Programming in JavaScript • https://amzn.to/3y75jBS

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