Functional Futures: Recent Episodes
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Functional Futures is a podcast where we interview people that are building the future of functional programming. From compiler developers juggling parsers, lexers, and type theory to software developers working on industry-grade libraries and codebases, we have something for the taste of every FP enthusiast out there.
In this month’s episode of Functional Futures, our guest is David Christiansen, the executive director of the Haskell Foundation, a contributor to a number of dependently typed languages, and a dependent type advocate that has managed to introduce many people to the topic today through his work, talks, and texts. In the episode, we cover topics such as dependent types, theorem proving, metaprogramming, and many more.
We also discuss the book David co-authored with Daniel P. Friedman, The Little Typer, and his current work in progress: Functional Programming in Lean.
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David's books: The Little Types – https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262536431/the-little-typer/
Functional Programming in Lean – https://leanprover.github.io/functional_programming_in_lean/
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In this month’s episode of Functional Futures, our guest is Edward Kmett – Head of Software Engineering at Groq and the author of many widely-used Haskell libraries. In the episode, we talk about his life story – how he got from being broke and in debt to learning category theory and authoring numerous Haskell libraries. We also talk about programming languages and projects beyond Haskell that make Edward excited right now.
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Some items we talked about:
https://hackage.haskell.org/package/lens
https://topos.institute/
https://intelligence.org/
https://groq.com/
https://github.com/leanprover/lean4
http://www.ats-lang.org/
https://github.com/ekmett/coda
https://github.com/ekmett/cadenza
https://github.com/enso-org/enso
Talks we mention:
Stop Treading Water – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z8KcCU-p8QA
Type Classes vs. the World – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hIZxTQP1ifo&t=521s
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Can functional programming be used for game development? Listen to this episode of Functional Futures to find out.
Our guest this time is Erik Svedäng. Erik is a game designer that has designed else Heart.Break(), a programming puzzle video game, and many other board and video games. He is also the creator of Carp, a statically-typed Lisp for real-time applications.
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Learn more about Carp: https://github.com/carp-lang/Carp
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In this month’s episode of Functional Futures, our guest is Oscar Spencer – the creator of Grain, a functional programming language for WASM. In the episode, we cover Grain, WASM, how to sell functional programming to mases, and many other topics.
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In this month’s episode of Functional Futures, our guest is Bernard Kolobara – the creator of Lunatic, an Erlang-inspired runtime for WASM.In the episode, we talk about Lunatic, WASM, BEAM (Erlang’s VM), and more.
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In this month’s episode of Functional Futures, our guest is Tim McNamara – author of Rust in Action and a prolific YouTube content creator.
During the episode, we live-code in Rust, talk about Rust programming patterns, and discuss Tim's book – Rust in Action.
If you want to watch the live-coding session in video format and participate in the giveaway of Rust in Action ebooks, head to our YouTube channel.
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In the first episode of the Functional Futures podcast, our guest is Brooklyn Zelenka, the co-founder & CTO of FISSION, an applied research company developing local-first and user-controlled applications. Brooklyn is also the author of Witchcraft, a library for writing Haskell “fan-fiction” in Elixir.
In the episode, we talk about her path towards becoming a developer, functional programming in general, and Witchcraft. We also discuss the good and bad parts of Web3.
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As part of the interview series, we interviewed Louis Pilfold, the creator of the Gleam programming language. Gleam is a fast, friendly, and functional language for building type-safe, scalable systems. It runs on BEAM, the same VM that Erlang and Elixir uses.
We talked about how humanities can help you become a better software developer, compiler development, Rust, and, of course, Gleam.
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As part of our interview series, we interviewed Edwin Brady, the creator of Idris, a dependently-typed programming language.
In the interview, we discussed two of the programming languages Edwin has participated in the creation of: Whitespace and Idris. Edwin also shared some tips and tricks about language creation and talked about the future plans of the Idris language.
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What's the future of Elixir? Listen to the discussion between Saša Jurić, the author of Elixir in Action, and Serokell CAO Jonn Mostovoy to learn their thoughts on Elixir and frameworks like Nx and Nerves.
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As part of our interview series, we got the fantastic opportunity to interview Simon Peyton Jones, who was a key contributor to the design of Haskell and one of the lead designers of Glasgow Haskell Compiler (GHC).
In the interview, we discussed the past, present, and future of Haskell, Haskell’s benefits and downsides, GHC, walking the line between Haskell being a research and industry language, and multiple other topics.
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