Functional Geekery Episode 122 – Brian Troutwine 4s6v55

In this episode I talk with Brian Troutwine. We catch up with his work in Erlang, working in Rust, applying functional programming techniques to Rust, learning Erlang compared to Rust, his book “Concurrent Rust” that is in the works, and much more. Our Guest, Brian Troutwinehttps://blog.troutwine.us/ @bltroutwine on Twitter Conference Announcements CodeBEAM STO, formerly Erlang Conference, celebrates the 20th Anniversary of Erlang being made Open Sourced, and will be taking place May 31st and June 1st. For more information and to visit https://codesync.global. 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 . International Conference on Functional Programming 2018 will be taking place September 23 – 29th in St. Louis, MO. For more information, and to visit: https://icfp18.sigplan.org/ StrangeLoop 2018 will be taking place September 27th and 28th, with a pre-conference day on the 26th in St. Louis, MO. To keep updated as details become announced you can find out more at: https://www.thestrangeloop.com/ 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 [@3:15] About Brian What Brian has been up to in the past few years Mostly Erlang Erlang Rust The Charming Genius of the Apollo Guidance Computer AdRoll Postmates C++ Cernen Hopper Quantiles If Brian was spoiled by working on a system with 1M TPS Knight Capital Group Cautionary Tale Property Testing Beginner’s Luck RackSpace Software being able to inspect itself SmallCheck Chaos Engineering How Brian was introduced to Erlang Joe Armstrong’s thesis paper Prolog OpenMP SML Constructivist approach to programming Idris Agda Coq Working in Erlang professionally at RackSpace Bringing others up to speed with Erlang Mochi Elixir Programming Erlang Erlang and OTP in Action Learn You Some Erlang Difference in Erlang/Elixir approachability since Brian started learning it “I’ve never known an easier time to learn Erlang [and Elixir] than we have right now” Similarity in Brian’s learning Erlang to learning Rust Rust The Book Tokio The ML family typed inspire side of Rust How much does functional ideas fit into Rust in practice Thinking in Erlang as sequential inside of a process which is concurrent Applying a similar approach in Rust What is meant by “Safety” in Rust Using C++ at AdRoll vs how Brian uses Rust today Traits in Rust Working on a book on Concurrency in Rust Rust Concurrency Andrew Stone on Actor System in Rust at CodeMesh How Rust approaches concurrency at a language level What does saying “Rust is Memory Safe” mean? Atomic Reference Counter (ARC) Crates.io Rayon Crossbeam CodeMesh 2018 in London Deg for Scalability with Erlang/OTP Programming Rust from O’Reilly Rust in Action from Manning ripgrep quickcheck Rust in WebAssembly D Andrew Stone’s work at VMWare As always, a giant Thank You goes to David Belcher for the logo design. 3717a