Expert Talk: Functional Programming • Russ Olsen & Christian Romney • GOTO 2022

This interview was recorded for GOTO Unscripted 2022. #GOTOcon #GOTOunscripted Read the full transcription of this interview here: Russ Olsen - Software Engineering Director at Nubank and Author of “Getting Clojure“ Christian Romney - Director of Engineering at Nubank DESCRIPTION Learn from Russ Olsen and Christian Romney why you should look into functional programming. They explore the nature of the paradigm as well as its advantages and misconceptions. In this GOTO Unscripted, Russ Olsen shares his war stories and explains how functional programming influences his code for the better. TIMECODES 00:00 Intro 01:05 What is functional programming? 03:18 What are the advantages of functional programming? 09:14 Misconceptions about functional programming 14:27 Do you need to understand category theory for FP? 16:25 How did you get started with functional programming? 22:55 Russ Olsen’s war stories 29:11 The influenc