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Introduction to Kotlin's Coroutines and Reactive Streams
Krystian Rybarczyk looks into coroutines and sees how they facilitate asynchronous programming, discussing flows and how they make writing reactive code simpler.
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Elixir vs Scala
Ludwik Bukowski and Kacper Mentel compare the results of a pattern recognition app implemented in Elixir and Scala.
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A Functional Tour of Automatic Differentiation
Oliver Strickson discusses automatic differentiation, a family of algorithms for taking derivatives of functions implemented by computer programs, offering the ability to compute gradients of values.
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Distributed Programming, Hash Tables, and Fun!
Thomas Gebert and Nick Misturak demonstrate how they built a distributed hash-table video-sharing system, the technical hurdles encountered, and the pros/cons of using functional languages to do so.
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Modelling Side Effects via Extensible Effects and Property Testing
William Heslam describes a technique to model a JavaScript's side-effecting dependencies by combining two separate but complementary ideas: Extensible Effects and Property Testing.
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Dynamic Creation of Well-Typed DSL Expressions
Pieter Koopman shows how to make dynamic editors for complex user inputs in iTask programs using dynamic types.
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Designing Composable Functional Libraries, Not Just for Data Visualization
Tomas Petricek describes the design of a data visualization library in The Gamma, covering principles of functional library design useful to use when tackling problems in other domains.
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Proving Algebraic Laws in Scala Using Stainless
Viktor Kunčak overviews Stainless used to state and formally verify properties of functional programs written in Scala.
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Functional Programming for Array-Based Parallelism
Gabriele Keller overviews functional array-based high-performance computing, how to map such programs efficiently to parallel hardware, and discusses challenges and ongoing work.
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Rethinking Blockchain Contract Development
Manuel Chakravarty discusses how IOHK’s Plutus combines programming language theory, functional programming in Haskell, and theorem-proving in Agda to develop a new approach to blockchain contracts.
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Users' Privacy Is in Your Hands!
Katarzyna Szymielewicz discusses technology and privacy, the need to consider privacy when designing systems, and the role of developers in this process.
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Real-Time Stream Analysis in Functional Reactive Programming
Riccardo Terrell discusses about a reactive approach to application design, and how to account for handling events in near real time employing the Functional Reactive Programming paradigm.