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Pony: How I learned to stop worrying and embrace an unproven technology
Sean T. Allen talks about his experiences using Pony to build Wallaroo, a high-performance, low-latency stream processing engine.
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Cloud-Sourcing T.S. Eliot
Sarah Gray shares her observations from using Erlang to reconstruct poetry from live Twitter streams, what’s great and not so great about Erlang, what language features she loves, etc..
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Panel: What's Next for Our Programming Languages?
Martin Thompson asks the hard questions on choices made and moderates the discussion between the people behind some of the largest and most innovative languages in use by developers today.
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Pony: Co-designing a Type-system and a Runtime
Sylvan Clebsch talks about Pony, an actor-model, capabilities-secure, native programming language.
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Why We Chose Erlang over Java, Scala, Go, C
Colin Hemmings discusses when and why one should choose Erlang over other options, but also when not to choose it.
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Get Kata
Kevlin Henney discusses a couple of katas and digs deeper into TDD, lambdas, language(s), (dys)functional programming and Alcubierre drive.
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Practical Data Synchronization Using CRDTs
Dmitry Ivanov discusses the basic CRDTs implementations in Scala, explaining the advantages of these data structures to solve many synchronization problems as well as their limitations.
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JDK 8: Lessons Learnt with Lambdas and Streams
Simon Ritter starts with a short summary of the key features of both Lambda expressions and streams before moving on to some real world examples of how to use them effectively.
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Adventures in Elm: Events, Reproducibility, and Kindness
Jessica Kerr introduces Elm, focusing on its architecture: how it overturns what is essential in object-oriented and even back-end functional programming.
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Elm: Finding the Functional in Reactive Programming
Claudia Doppioslash discusses some of the useful features of Elm, such as time traveling debugger, immutability, union types, type inference and Functional Reactive Programming.
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Designing with Passion
Panelists answer questions on the languages they contributed to: How do you organize thoughts and code? What unique advances in usability did your language make? Why do your users love to code in it?
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Why Functional Programming Matters
John Hughes takes a deep dive into the history of functional programming to revisit a personal selection of highlights.