From Scala to Roc with Monica McGuigan

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Software Unscripted

Richard Feldman

111 episodes

1 month ago

Software Unscripted, A weekly podcast of casual conversations about code hosted by Richard Feldman.

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Software Unscripted, A weekly podcast of casual conversations about code hosted by Richard Feldman.

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From Scala to Roc with Monica McGuigan

Software Unscripted

1 hour 7 minutes 42 seconds

9 months ago

From Scala to Roc with Monica McGuigan

Monica McGuigan, a Scala programmer at JP Morgan, talks with Richard about her experiences learning Roc with a Scala background. They get into topics like how language design affects beginners and experts, what parts of functional programming are easier and harder to learn than others, and how language designers inform their design decisions.

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Monica's chapter on JSON decoders: https://github.com/roc-lang/book-of-examples/pull/68

Grapheme clusters: https://unicode.org/glossary/#extended_grapheme_cluster

Roc's string operations: https://www.roc-lang.org/builtins/Str

Talk: The Functional Purity Inference Plan: https://youtu.be/42TUAKhzlRI?si=TwxYoqMgh0UXQLfn

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