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Does JavaScript Adopt Functional Programming?
Summary
Yoav Luft discusses a study attempting to determine whether JavaScript developers are adopting a more declarative programming style, and whether this style is influenced by functional programming.
Bio
Yoav Luft is highly involved with the meta of programming: how we work, think, develop and communicate. He is the founder of Israel's first functional programming conference, FLIP, and was on the organizing team for HackExtend - a diversity focused hackathon. He now creates software at Prototyp.se.
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