Telling the Functional Programming Story
summary
Functional programming book sales run at about 200 units per week in North America while JavaScript books hit roughly 1,500 units per week and JavaScript the Good Parts sells ~10× the total O'Reilly Erlang volume; Introducing Erlang is ~78% electronic and Introducing Elixir ~82% electronic. Experiments that work include live editing on GitHub, exercise-driven courses for newcomers, Elixir’s deliberately friendly community, and tooling like Docker that eases deployment into existing stacks; Scala’s momentum shows up as 5 of 6 bestsellers in recent lists.
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chapters (34)
- 0:00Intro
- 0:21Simon StLaurent
- 2:57Writing
- 4:30Tech Book Sales
- 8:51Practical Common
- 9:37RealWorld Haskell
- 10:37How the market has changed
- 15:15Javascript
- 15:49OReilly
- 20:14The Land of Publishing
- 27:41Gambling Addiction
- 31:51Stability
- 35:54MIT Press
- 36:16Digital Publishing
- 37:36Programming vs Publishing
- 38:34Agile Publishing
- 41:22Documentation
- 42:43Two reasons people buy
- 44:09You dont need a publisher
- 45:08In the early universe
- 45:23Cyber City Night
- 46:05Erlang is cool
- 46:24Telling the story of Erlang
- 48:35Thank you
- 48:54Smaller steps
- 50:42Erlang as a filter
- 52:34Introducing Erlang
- 53:47Other Functional Languages
- 54:16Elixir
- 56:04Everything is Scala
- 57:25Go breaks all the rules
- 58:37Listening to different languages
- 59:06Erlang has superpowers
- 59:46You have superpowers too
