Foojay Podcast #20: Functional Programming, “The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly”
April 24, 2023Author(s)
Functional programming... it seems you either love it or you hate it.
But, like everything in software engineering, it is a trade-off.
So for today, let's focus on the good, the bad, and the ugly parts of functional programming!
Guests
- Alejandro Serrano, Software Engineer at 47 Degrees, author of "Practical Haskell", "The Book of Monads", and "FP Ideas for the Curious Kotliner"
- Deepu K Sasidharan, JHipster co-lead, Java Champion, Staff Dev Advocate @ Okta, Java, JS, Rust, Cloud Native Advocate, Author, Speaker
Podcast
- Host: Ties van de Ven
- Producer: Frank Delporte
Links
- https://foojay.io/today/7-functional-programming-techniques-in-java-a-primer/ (Deepu)
- https://foojay.io/today/the-problem-with-functional-programming/ (Ties)
- https://www.baeldung.com/java-functional-programming
Content
- 00’00 Intro
- 00’17 Introduction of the guests
- 07’40 What is functional programming (FP)?
- 11’50 The same problems exist in FP and Object Oriented Programming
- 13’50 Academic approach to programming
- 17’54 Who of the guests is a FP purist?
- 22’25 Understand the “Why”? Why use FP?
- 28’11 The costs of FP
- 30’57 When to learn FP
- 42’43 What is the future of FP?
- 50’41 Outro
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