Back to basics: why I think functional programming is awesome

5 years ago I fell in love with functional programming. It started with the incredible collection API that allows to do ten times less code than in Java and since then I go deeper every day. For this talk I will take a step back and try to highligh why the force is so strong with functional programming and why you should use it right now (if not already). We will talk about typing, side effects, pure functions, refactoring imperative code, fonctor, monad and all the things you need to create some clear, composable and testable code. The goal is not to show advanced functional programming but only the 20% that do 80% of the magic !

Session length

40 minutes

Language of the presentation

English

Target audience

Beginner: No need to have prior knowledge

Who is your session intended to

People who want to understand well functional programming basis and what they bring to code bases

Speaker

Loic Knuchel (Software engineer at Criteo)