Foojay Podcast #20: Functional Programming, “The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly”

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

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