Functional Geekery Episode 120 – Lisa ing 52b41

In this episode I talk with Lisa ing. We talk her introduction to Clojure and functional programming, her intro to Rust, how Rust fits in the functional programming world, and more. Our Guest, Lisa ing lislis on Github Conference Announcements LambdaDays 2018 will be taking place February 22nd and 23rd in Kraków, Poland. For more information, and to , visit http://www.lambdadays.org/. BOB 2018 is coming up in Berlin, on February 23rd, 2018. For more information, and to , visit http://bobkonf.de/. :clojureD will be following BOB 2018 in Berlin, on February 24th, 2018. For more information, and to , visit http://clojured.de/. Comcast Labs Connect Functional Programming conference will be taking place Friday March 9th in Philadelphia, PA. For more information and to visit: https://comcastlabsconnectfp.comcast.com/ Micheal Nygard will be hosting a 5-day workshop “Monolith to Microservices” on March 12th-16th in Fort Walton Beach, Florida. For more information, and to , visit: https://n6consulting.com/workshop/monolith-to-microservices/ CodeBeamSF will be taking place March 15th and 16th, with training taking on the 12th-14th and 19th-21st of March. For more information, and to , visit: https://codesync.global/conferences/code-beam-sf-2018. Lambda Squared is a new conference taking place March 30th in Knoxville, Tennessee. For more information, and to , visit https://www.lambda-squared.com/. Midlands Graduate School (MGS) is going to be held in Nottingham, UK, 9–13 April, hosted by the School of Computer Science, the University of Nottingham. For more information and to visit: https://www.functionalgeekery.com/MGS2018 ElixirConf EU will be taking place April 16th and 17th in Warsaw, Poland. For more information, and to , visit: http://www.elixirconf.eu/. BuzzConf will take place the Thursday 26th of April, with workshops on Friday April 27th, in Buenos Aires, Argentina. For more information, and to , visit: http://buzzconf.org/. Monadic Party, a 5 day Haskell Summer School, will be taking place in Pozna?, Poland the 11th-15th of June. Visit https://monadic.party/ for more information and to . If you have a conference related to functional programming, me, and I will be happy to announce it. Announcements Some of you have asked how you can 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 , you can find out more at https://www.patreon.com/fngeekery. Topics [@6:15] About Lisa PHP WordPress Clojure Rust How Lisa first got exposed to Clojure Node.js Ruby ClojureBridge ClojureScript The help/hindrance of exposure to other languages Lua Writing little games to learn a language What was the convincing needed to look at Clojure Grasping what “Code as Data” means Principles picked up from learning Clojure How Rust was put on Lisa’s radar Hesitancy at working with a systems language RustFest “You can try and it doesn’t matter if you fail” Crates Hearing of the idea of a web-framework in Rust Working with a statically typed language Haskell Rust Programming Language Book Pattern Matching How Clojure inspired ways of working in Rust Traits Functions vs Closures in Rust Overview of Lisa’s talk at LambdaDays Where Lisa sees Rust fitting in the programming languages ecosystem When Clojure vs Rust LambdaDays :clojureD RustFest ClojureBridge ClojureBridge Berlin As always, a giant Thank You goes to David Belcher for the logo design. 3mn2v