topic: functional programming
Everything I’ve written on the subject, from the beginning of this version of the site.
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2020
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Apr
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09
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JavaScript Functional Immutable Update Performance—JOURNAL
What are the performance implications of “immutable functional updates”?
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May
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25
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Making Illegal States Unrepresentable—In TypeScript—JOURNAL
Showing how Scott Wlaschin’s approach in F♯ translates to a language with a very different type system.
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Sep
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05
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Data Constructors, Part 1: Understanding by Implementing —JOURNAL
Understanding an idea from Standard ML-like languages by implementing it in (boring) TypeScript.
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Oct
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13
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Data Constructors, Part 2: Better TypeScript —JOURNAL
A deep dive on more idiomatic TypeScript implementations of ML-style data constructors.
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2021
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Jan
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22
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Using Classes for Functional Programming—JOURNAL
We tend to think classes are inherently for object-oriented programming, but they are much more flexible than that in JavaScript and TypeScript (and other languages too).
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Feb
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13
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Announcement: Speaking at EmberConf 2021 —ELSEWHERE
In which I’ll be speaking for 30 minutes at a JS conference… and will spend only about 5 of those minutes on JS.
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Mar
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21
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Progressive Disclosure of Complexity and Typed FP Languages—JOURNAL
Or, one part of why to some extent Elm, and to a significant degree PureScript Halogen, can be quite difficult for users to get their heads around at first.
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31
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Keep It Local—ELSEWHERE
Or: (part of) what “reasoning about your code” really means; being my EmberConf 2021 talk.
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Nov
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18
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Reading “A Functional Programming Language with Versions”—LIBRARY
The first academic research I’m aware of which actually takes Semantic Versioning seriously!
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2022
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Jan
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28
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Announcement: Speaking at TypeVille 2022 —ELSEWHERE
On the subject of “Types as Tools for Thought”
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2023
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Jan
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08
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Special Null Syntax vs. Types and Functions—JOURNAL
Why does
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