Episode 8: Damn Functional Programming with Paco Estevez

Guests

• Paco Estevez: Twitter, GitHub, website

Hosts

• Artem Zinnatullin: Twitter, GitHub, website
• Hannes Dorfmann: Twitter, GitHub, website

Notes

In this episode we have talked with Paco Estevez about Functional Programming and how he applies Functional Programming in his android apps. We have covered:

• Concepts of Functional Programming
• Monads, Pure Functions, Immutability, Tuples, Union Types
• Pattern Matching
• Error Handling
• Functional Reactive Programming with RxJava
• Restoring state in Android apps

Additional links:

Talks, books and websites about Functional Programming:

• Clojure for the Brave and True
• Learn You a Haskell for Great Good
• F# for fun and profit
• Talk by Paco about Memory Management in Fully Reactive Apps

Some of Paco’s open source libraries:

• Komprehensions
• RxSealedUnions
• RxTuples

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