Functional Programming and F# with Rachel Reese
The Western Devs kidnap Rachel Reese at Prairie Dev Con and force her to speak on functional programming and F# in exchange for empanadas
Recorded on Tuesday, April 12, 2016
Synopsis
Special guest: Rachel Reese
- Why functional programming? Why now?
- Myths of functional programming
- This ain't your mother's functional programming
- Can I find a job with F#?
- Can companies find F# developers?
- WTF is a monad?
- Useful F# libraries
- Scripting with F#
- Type providers
- Options
- Piping
- Discriminated unions
- Records vs. tuples vs. structs
- Getting started with F#
- F# in the community
- F# in Xamarin, Mono, and .NET Core
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