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"
  • https://serranofp.com/
  • https://twitter.com/trupill 
  • https://www.linkedin.com/in/alejandroserranomena/ 
• Deepu K Sasidharan, JHipster co-lead, Java Champion, Staff Dev Advocate @ Okta, Java, JS, Rust, Cloud Native Advocate, Author, Speaker
  • https://twitter.com/deepu105
  • https://mastodon.social/@deepu105 
  • https://deepu.tech/ 
  • https://www.linkedin.com/in/deepu05/ 

Podcast 

• Host: Ties van de Ven
  • https://www.tiesvandeven.nl/
  • https://twitter.com/ties_ven
  • https://www.linkedin.com/in/ties-van-de-ven-a24480a/
• Producer: Frank Delporte 
  • https://twitter.com/FrankDelporte 
  • https://foojay.social/@frankdelporte 

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
  • https://www.baeldung.com/java-monads
• 42’43 What is the future of FP?
• 50’41 Outro