Functional programming? (Go Time #87)

Panelists Mat Ryer and Johnny Boursiquot are joined by guest panelist Aaron Schlesinger to ask/answer questions like; What is functional programming? Can you do functional programming in Go? Can we apply any learnings from functional programming languages as we write Go code today?

Panelists Mat Ryer and Johnny Boursiquot are joined by guest panelist Aaron Schlesinger to ask/answer questions like; What is functional programming? Can you do functional programming in Go? Can we apply any learnings from functional programming languages as we write Go code today?

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Featuring:

Aaron Schlesinger – Twitter, GitHub, WebsiteMat Ryer – Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn, WebsiteJohnny Boursiquot – Twitter, GitHub, Website

Show Notes:

Functional Programming in Go With dcode
go-functional/dcode - Decode JSON with Functional Decoders
go-functional/functy - Functional builders for vecty elements
[Talk] Functional Programming in Go - Aaron Schlesinger @ GopherCon 2017
Interesting reading about Erlang, functional programming and concurrency - by Joe Armstrong

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