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?

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Featuring:

• Aaron Schlesinger – Website, GitHub, X
• Mat Ryer – GitHub, LinkedIn, Bluesky, X
• Johnny Boursiquot – Website, GitHub, X

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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