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In this episode I talk with Edgar Aroutiounian. We talk his introduction to OCaml, OCaml inter-op with other languages, some of the things in the works for OCaml, and more.

Our Guest, Edgar Aroutiounian

@EdgarArout on Twitter

fxfactorial on Github

http://hyegar.com/

Edgar’s YouTube Channel

Announcements

f(by) is coming up on the 10th of December in Minsk, Belarus. Visit http://fby.by to find out more and to register.

Lambda Days will be taking place again on the 9th and 10th of February 2017. Visit www.lambdadays.org to submit your talk and keep updated as more information becomes available.

Kats Conf 2 will be taking place in Dublin, Ireland on the 18th of February. Visit http://www.katsconf.com/ to register and for more information.

ClojureD will be taking place on the 25th of February, 2017, in Berlin, Germany. Visit www.clojured.de to get tickets and keep updated as more information becomes available.

BOB Konf is taking place the 24th of February 2017 in Berlin, Germany. Visit www.bobkonf.de for more information about the conference.

ElixirDaze is coming up on March 2nd and 3rd. With keynotes by Prag Dave Thomas and Saša Jurić, make sure to visit www.elixirdaze.com for more information and to register.

Destination Code, a new unconference starting in Utah, is having its inaugural event March 27-30th, 2017. Visit http://www.destination.codes/ to find out more.

Erlang & Elixir Factory 2017 is on the 23rd and 24th of March. Visit www.erlang-factory.com/sfbay2017 for more information.

flatMap(Oslo) is a FP-conference with focus on Scala and the JVM, taking place on May 2nd and 3rd in Oslo, Norway. Please go to http://2017.flatmap.no/cfp/ to learn more.

Elm Europe will be taking place June 8th and 9th in Paris, France. Visit http://elmeurope.org/ for more information and to register.

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

Topics [@4:32]

About Edgar

Python

Hacking a Economics Master’s program to take Computer Science Courses

OCaml

Solvuu

What started Edgar looking into functional programming

“One year into coding, the type error seemed stupid”

Merlin

Introduction to Functional Programming with OCaml MOOC

White space sensitive languages

Refactoring in OCaml

Lessons learned from production OCaml software

OCaml Module System

Failure Conditions

Multiple Backends for OCaml

Js_of_ocaml

OCaml features creeping into JavaScript and other languages

ReasonML

Designing for targeting different backends

OCaml C Foreign Function Interface

CTypes

Going back to working in dynamically typed languages

Flow for type checking

Haskell vs OCaml

Last time Edgar tried Haskell

Hakyll

What about OCaml that makes Edgar excited to sell its usage

utop

OCaml Reddit

OCaml IRC

Opam

OCaml.org

Real World Haskell

Real World OCaml

What the future is looking like in OCaml

OCaml Mailing lists

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