June 06, 2017

Functional Geekery Episode 97 - Colin Barrett

46 minutes

In this episode I talk with Colin Barrett. We talk his intro to Objective C; exploration to Haskell, OCaml, and other languages; diving deep into functional programming; functional Swift; and more.

Our Guest, Colin Barrett

@cbarrett on Twitter

https://www.patreon.com/cbarrett

Conference Announcements

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

Scala Wave 2017 will be taking place July 7th and 8th. Visit scalawave.io to find out more and to register.

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/.

PWLConf 2017 will be taking place September 28th in St. Louis, MO, before Strange Loop. Visit http://pwlconf.org/ for more information and to stay updated on latest announcements.

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/.

CodeMesh is coming up November 8th and 9th in London. For more information, and to keep an eye open for registration, visit http://www.codemesh.io/.

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

Announcements

Some of you have asked how you can support Functional Geekery, in that vein,

Functional Geekery now has a Patreon Page.

If that is one of the ways you would like to show your support, you can

find out more at https://www.patreon.com/fngeekery.

Topics [@5:33]

About Colin

Adium

How Colin first got exposed to software development

First exposures to programming languages

Objective C

C and C++

Hypercard

Looking into Haskell, OCaml, Ruby and other languages

MacRuby

bracer

Getting into Haskell

Going Broad vs Going Deep

Python

Seven Languages in Seven Weeks

Colin’s experience getting started with Haskell

“Depending on the angle you come at it, you either bounce off, or get hooked”

Real World Haskell

Taking lessons back out of Haskell

Blocks in Python and Objective C

Uncanny Valley of functional programming in Objective C

Getting deep into functional programming and functional reactive programming

Conal Elliott

Swift

Itai Ferber

Swift Evolution List

Smart KeyPaths

Digging into Swift

The dream of a ML family language with Objective C inter-op

Scala

Reactive Cocoa

What is the power of Swift vs Objective C?

“Separating out what to do from how to do it”

Swift compared to Haskell or an ML running server side

Rust

Kotlin

FindBugs

Recommendations for introducing more functional Swift

Kickstarter libraries

Kickstarter Prelude

Kickstarter mobile apps open sourced

Kickstarter iOS app

Functional Swift Conferences

Theorems for free!

Propositions as Types

Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs

Compose Conference

Upcoming plans for a Front-end Functional meetup in NYC

Brandon Williams

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

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