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In this episode I talk with Oskar Wickström. We talk his introduction to software development, journey to functional programming, tooling, state machines and static typing, and more.

Our Guest, Oskar Wickström

@owickstrom on Twitter

owickstrom on Github

https://wickstrom.tech/

Conference Announcements

CodeMesh is coming up November 8th and 9th in London. For more information, and to keep an eye open for registration, visit http://www.codemesh.io/.

Clojure SYNC will be taking place in New Orleans on February 15th & 16th of 2018. For more information and to register visit: http://clojuresync.com/.

LambdaDays 2018 will be taking place February 22nd and 23rd in Kraków, Poland. For more information, and to register, visit http://www.lambdadays.org/.

BOB 2018 is coming up in Berlin, Germany on February 23rd, 2018. For more informationa, and to register, visit http://bobkonf.de/.

:clojureD will be following BOB 2018 in Berlin, Germany on February 24th, 2018. For more information, and to register, visit http://clojured.de/.

If you have a conference related to functional programming, contact me, and I will be happy to announce it.

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Topics [@2:35]

About Oskar

How Oskar moved from music to programming

PHP for a band website

What made software become more interesting to move into development

WordPress

What made to move to looking into other languages

Object-Oriented Programming in PHP

C# and .NET

Java

Scala

Haskell

“Absorbing every advice from people that I respected”

How Oskar was exposed to Haskell

Learn You A Haskell

Programming Scala as Java, but with a better syntax

What were the “Ah-Ha” moments when starting to learn Haskell

Static-Dispatch in Haskell vs Dynamic-Dispatch in Java

Implementing an Event Store

Event Sourcing

Making the move from Haskell in side projects to working in Haskell

Functional JavaScript

React

Reactive Programming

Implementing functional ideas from Haskell to JavaScript

Giving mini-trainings on functional programming concepts

Dual Feedback loop between play projects and applying to work problems

First work project in Haskell

Oden

Go language

PureScript

Using a language to deliver small tooling for yourself

Trying to use the best tooling

How Oskar thinks about picking tooling

The Unix Philosophy of “doing one thing and one thing well”

Documentation

Sphinx

reStructuredText

Hyper

PureScript middleware like Express and Connect in Node.js

Representing middleware as a state-machine verified by a type system

Why run PureScript in a Node.js environment?

“That’s a question I always get asked when people ask me about Hyper”

Row Polymorphism

Migrating an existing Node.js app to PureScript

purerl

Cowboy

Hardy Jones mentioning purerl on Magic Read Along

servant

Overview of upcoming talk “Finite State Machines – Your Compiler Wants In”

Idris

“This is a very nice hammer, but you don’t want to apply it everywhere”

CodeMesh

Haskell eXchange 2018

As always, a giant Thank You goes to David Belcher for the logo design.