Freestyle: A Framework for Purely Functional FP Apps & Libs

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Freestyle is a Scala library that helps build purely functional applications and libraries using free monads. The talk covers Freestyle's design choices and features—modules, algebras, and how to compose interpreters—and outlines planned future releases, with slides and code links provided.

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1. 0:00Freestyle introduction
2. 2:05FP adoption challenges
3. 10:09Core principles
4. 17:30Benefits of functional apps
5. 22:42Conclusion

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