PickVidsBest Functional programming Videos
The 225 Functional programming videos here were recommended by different people across different months. Choose by who it is for: 24 introductory, 137 intermediate, 18 for a general viewer, and 46 for someone who wants the harder derivation. Most of them are a talk. What they share is that one speaker finishes a claim, and the examples exist to hold that claim up. Channels you will keep seeing include ClojureTV, Strange Loop Conference, Google TechTalks.
Bottom Up vs Top Down Design in Clojure - Mark Bastian
Mark Bastian contrasts top-down object-oriented design with bottom-up, data-oriented design in Clojure.
Julia: to Lisp or not to Lisp?
Stefan Karpinski's European Lisp Symposium 2016 talk asks whether Julia is a Lisp.
"The Mess We're In" by Joe Armstrong
Joe Armstrong, co-inventor of Erlang, gives a funny and opinionated Strange Loop talk on the tangled state of software: build tools, package managers, entropy and the physical limits of computation.
"Programming a 144-computer chip to minimize power" - Chuck Moore (2013)
Chuck Moore, inventor of Forth, presents GreenArrays' 144-core asynchronous chip at Strange Loop 2013.
"Stop Writing Dead Programs" by Jack Rusher (Strange Loop 2022)
Jack Rusher's Strange Loop 2022 talk argues that most programming languages are still designed around punchcard-era assumptions.
"Unison: a new distributed programming language" by Paul Chiusano
Paul Chiusano's Strange Loop 2019 talk introduces Unison, an open-source functional language for distributed, elastic systems.
Hey Underscore, You're Doing It Wrong!
Brian Lonsdorf explains why Underscore.js falls short as a functional programming library, then introduces currying, composition and point-free style in JavaScript.
Rails Conf 2012 Keynote: Simplicity Matters by Rich Hickey
Rich Hickey's keynote at RailsConf 2012, a close sibling of his 'Simple Made Easy' talk.
Functional Composition - Chris Ford
Chris Ford builds up from a single sine wave through layered abstractions to a Bach canon, using Clojure and the Overtone audio environment.
Domain Modeling Made Functional - Scott Wlaschin
Scott Wlaschin's NDC talk on using statically typed functional programming, F# in particular, to model a business domain.
Chris McCord - Keynote: Phoenix LiveView - Interactive Apps without Javascript - ElixirConf EU 2019
Chris McCord's ElixirConf EU 2019 keynote introducing Phoenix LiveView, which builds interactive server-rendered apps without writing JavaScript.
Emacs Rocks! Episode 14: Paredit
A three-minute Emacs Rocks screencast by Magnar Sveen demonstrating paredit, which edits Lisp code structurally as a tree of s-expressions rather than characters.
Erlang The Movie II: The Sequel
A humorous 10-minute parody sequel to Erlang: The Movie, in which Erlang's creators discuss the aging language and meet a surprise helper.
CppCon 2017: Juan Pedro Bolivar Puente “Postmodern immutable data structures”
Juan Pedro Bolivar Puente explains immutable and persistent data structures in C++ and how they support value semantics.
"Production Prolog" by Michael Hendricks
Michael Hendricks of PriceCharting shares tricks and pain points from running Prolog in production for 18 months at Strange Loop.
Functional architecture - The pits of success - Mark Seemann
Mark Seemann argues that functional programming naturally yields many of the best practices object-oriented developers learn painfully.
Joe Armstrong & Alan Kay - Joe Armstrong interviews Alan Kay
Joe Armstrong, creator of Erlang, interviews Alan Kay at Code Mesh.
Lambda Calculus - Fundamentals of Lambda Calculus & Functional Programming in JavaScript
Gabriel Lebec's Fullstack Academy talk introduces lambda calculus syntax, the history of mathematical logic, and the essence of functional programming using JavaScript.
"Transducers" by Rich Hickey
Rich Hickey introduces transducers in Clojure, a way to make map, filter and similar algorithms composable independent of the data source.
Hewitt, Meijer and Szyperski: The Actor Model (everything you wanted to know...)
A standing whiteboard conversation at Lang.NEXT 2012 among Carl Hewitt, Erik Meijer and Clemens Szyperski about the actor model.
Interactive programming Flappy Bird in ClojureScript
Bruce Hauman live-codes Flappy Bird in ClojureScript in about six minutes, using figwheel to hot-reload changes into the running game.
Build a real-time Twitter clone in 15 minutes with LiveView and Phoenix 1.5
Phoenix creator Chris McCord builds a real-time Twitter-style app live with Phoenix LiveView 1.5 in about 15 minutes.
Rich Hickey rants about HttpServletRequest in 1080p: Death By Specificity from Clojure Made Simple
A five-minute excerpt of Rich Hickey's Clojure Made Simple talk, with new slides, ranting about HttpServletRequest and specificity.
Evan Czaplicki - Let's be mainstream! User focused design in Elm - Curry On
Evan Czaplicki, creator of Elm, talks at Curry On 2015 about user-focused language design.