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Typed Functional Programming in JavaScript with Alfonso García-Caro, Richard Feldman, Phil Freeman, and Jordan Walke Description:

"Tie your hands to free your mind" is a mantra you hear that applies really well to the constraints that you put on yourself by embracing statically typed languages and functional programming. We're going to hear from various people about their respective visions of typed FP in JS.

Show sponsors: Links, Picks, and Tips: Richard Feldman @rtfeldman Links Tips
  • Don’t wait for a rewrite! Introduce a new language incrementally. Build a small thing that works. Get that small thing in production. Then expand.
Picks Phil Freeman @paf31 Links Picks Alfonso García-Caro @alfonsogcnunez Picks Jordan Walke @jordwalke Links Picks Pam Selle @pamasaur Picks Dan Abramov @dan_abramov Kent C. Dodds @kentcdodds Picks Brian Lonsdorf @drboolean Tips
  • Use an ide or vim setup
  • Learn to reason about type signatures alone
  • Constraints are great, but start simple and dial them up later
  • Write simple code w/o abstractions until you feel the pain - then learn abstractions to solve that
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