The Big Problems Facing Functional Programming & a Possible Solution
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Argues FP is failing because it is niche, lacks libraries, jobs and a killer app, and proposes a pragmatic solution: a new, simple functional language modeled on Clojure with type safety that compiles to JavaScript Java C C++ Kotlin Swift, is written in Go, and produces identical test-suite outputs across targets. Claims the prototype supports native library interop, async/parallelism, serialization, rich types, function-level permissions and limits on infinite loops, and aims for Write Once, Run Everywhere deployment with a single executable.
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chapters (10)
- 0:00Introduction
- 4:22My background
- 7:14Problems facing functional programming
- 10:46Programming crisis
- 14:16Opportunity for functional programming
- 21:29Wish list
- 26:35Who benefits
- 31:55End goal
- 36:01Features & examples
- 43:17Q&A
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