Rúnar Bjarnason
Talks I've Given
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Unison: a friendly programming language from the future
Featuring Rúnar Bjarnason
Unison is a new open source functional programming language based on a simple idea with big implications: every type and definition in the language has a unique cryptographic signature, determined by its content. Instead of a bag of mutable text files, the Unison codebase is a distributed...
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Keynote: Composing Programs
Featuring Rúnar Bjarnason
As creators of software, you grapple with the question of how to assemble components into large-scale systems that you can easily understand, and then use as components in further systems. Fortunately, functional programming has an easy answer: functions are compositional. In fact, you could say...
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An invitation to functional programming
Featuring Rúnar Bjarnason
Scala is not a purely functional programming language. But we can restrict ourselves to a purely functional subset of Scala. The question is: should we? This talk will make the case that the answer is unequivocally "yes". We can treat Scala as a purely functional language. But more than...
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