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Joseph Koski
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Hello everyone,
This year I am chairing the Functional Architecture workshop colocated with ICFP and SPLASH.
I’m happy to announce that...
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Coming from Clojure, Haskell, and Ocaml I’m very happy about using let for variable scoping.
I have then started using with for this in ...
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Next edition of your favourite Functional Programming Conference
For over a decade, this event has brought the functional programming w...
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Attention all Elixir enthusiasts! The Functional Conf 2025 Call for Proposals is closing soon, and it’s a golden opportunity to share you...
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Hello All,
I don’t know how to ask this question or if I am asking it in the right place, but I need some suggestions/guidance. I am cur...
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I got some knowledge on Elixir quickly, the language is very simple and straightforward. I feel that even not having a deep understand at...
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2 days of full focus on functional programming: Lambda Days is a conference bringing together FP enthusiasts from both academic and busin...
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I’m going through Tate and DeBenedetto’s Programming Phoenix LiveView and observed the code below.
defp assign_chart_svg(%{assigns: %{...
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MOD NOTE: These were extracted from https://elixirforum.com/t/elixir-should-focus-on-newbie-adoption
I’m going to push back on some of t...
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I’ve been primarily doing Elixir development for the past 6 years or so, and during that time whole heartedly committed to functional par...
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MOD NOTE: These were extracted from https://elixirforum.com/t/elixir-should-focus-on-newbie-adoption
I’m going to push back on some of t...
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I got some knowledge on Elixir quickly, the language is very simple and straightforward. I feel that even not having a deep understand at...
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Episode 158 of Thinking Elixir. A challenge for many people learning Elixir is the change in the mental model. Coming from OOP to Functio...
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Coming from Clojure, Haskell, and Ocaml I’m very happy about using let for variable scoping.
I have then started using with for this in ...
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It seems that people are very fired when it comes to discussions about static typing, namely these 2 topics received a lot of interaction...
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I’m going through Tate and DeBenedetto’s Programming Phoenix LiveView and observed the code below.
defp assign_chart_svg(%{assigns: %{...
New
2 days of full focus on functional programming: Lambda Days is a conference bringing together FP enthusiasts from both academic and busin...
New
Hello All,
I don’t know how to ask this question or if I am asking it in the right place, but I need some suggestions/guidance. I am cur...
New
Next edition of your favourite Functional Programming Conference
For over a decade, this event has brought the functional programming w...
New
Attention all Elixir enthusiasts! The Functional Conf 2025 Call for Proposals is closing soon, and it’s a golden opportunity to share you...
New
Hello everyone,
This year I am chairing the Functional Architecture workshop colocated with ICFP and SPLASH.
I’m happy to announce that...
New
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In asking this question I am more interested about the expressiveness of the language itself and less concerned about the availability of...
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Recently I have rediscovered the with statement to program in a more rail oriented way, and I must say I am loving it thus far...
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Hi Guys,
I’m studing Elixir since last month but, I have a lot dificulty to change the form of thinking to solve a problem with function...
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I’ve been making a basic todo-list application to learn phoenix and i’ve been looking through the forums for answers on how to properly d...
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Hey guys, just want a little help.
(1) How can I compare two list of maps and always supersedes list_2 over list_1 if they have the same...
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Today I realized that it would be possible to implement currying-capability in Elixir, using some clever anonymous function creation. ('c...
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I have been lurking around here some days now and heard (read) lot of good about this community.
Now I could need some advice or a secon...
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If the name of John Carmack does not ring a bell look for him with google. This writing is a plea for a functional style of programming. ...
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Hoping the old adage that no question is a dumb question holds true with this one...
When building an application that requires maintai...
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Could someone provide a learning path for functional programming for who came from oops background.? Thanks in advance
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I’ve spent some time recently organizing material for people who: 1) don’t know Elixir and want to try it and/or 2) for those who want to...
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I recently wrote some Elixir to format a list of strings (eg, author names) for output. I think it’s reasonably idiomatic, but I probably...
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Good day everyone!
I am using Enum.reduce/3 (Enum — Elixir v1.9.0-rc.0) function quite often and I am regularly wondering why are the ar...
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I am trying to up my Functional Programming (FP) skills and one of the things that newcomers first learn in FP is the Option T...
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Hi! I created some animations to explain what happens internally with map & reduce functions.
The code is open source. Any feedback...
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