Functional Geekery Episode 130 – Ivan ?uki? 274h2h

In this episode I talk with Ivan ?uki?. We talk his introduction to functional programming, adopting Scala, his book “Functional Programming in C++”, the C++ communities adoption of functional programming, and much more. Our Guest, Ivan ?uki? @ivan_cukic on Twitter https://cukic.co/ Functional Programming in C++ Ivan’s Projects Discount Code from Manning As part of this episode Manning has offered listeners of the podcast a permanent 40% discount code, good for any of their products, in all formats. Use code podgeekery20 for your 40% discount. Conference Announcements Elm Conf is going virtual! Taking place July 15th-17th in your home. The Call for Talks is open and early bird registration has started. Find out more at https://2020.elm-conf.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 [@1:40] About Ivan Functional Programming in C++ How Ivan was first exposed to Functional Programming Being taught LISP Working in Java Being a big event when Java introduced forEach Haskell “Multi-threaded and shorter to write” Seeing annotations of a Java program on what would be equivalent in Haskell Haskell as the background noise in his life Picking Scala when going back to the JVM Adopting Scala Transitioning from a “better Java” to a “worse Haskell” Akka Erlang Akka and influence to any OOP style that might have still existed C++ Ranges library What it means to be a Functional Programming Language STL “C++ has always been a functional language” Eric Normand’s Clojure Mid-Cities Group presentation Timing of the C++ community’s evolution to functional programming with Ivan’s use of functional C++ Cute Giving a talk about asynchronous programming with Monads Sean Parent – C++ Seasoning Deciding to write a book on functional programming in C++ The target audience of Functional Programming in C++ “I don’t see what functional programming in here, it’s just common sense” Strengths of C++ with functional programming Lambdas in C++ Having control over everything Simulating Linear Types in C++ easily vs needing compiler in Haskell Where the sane defaults in C++ fit with Functional Programming immer library for immutable data structures Clojure Topics in the book for people not familiar with C++ “Like all Monad tutorials I claim that mine works and none of the others do” IO Monad being useless in C++ Ivan’s view of Rust as a C++ Developer D “All the serious projects use the unsafe features of the language” What Ivan would love to see the C++ community adopt What is exciting Ivan currently Bitmap Vector Trie or Ideal Hash Trees General Recommendations “Stay Safe” “Investigate the beautiful world of open source and free software” As always, a giant Thank You goes to David Belcher for the logo design. 3b5q6d