Q & A Session With Functional Conf Speakers
summary
Panel records that a company runs 100,000 lines of Haskell in production and one maintainer claims 2.5 million lines under care, planning to shrink to ~400,000. A GPU data‑parallel compiler exists described as 17 lines of APL, 948 nodes, 74 unique names, ~1,000 tokens. Concrete wins and blockers surface: a Raspberry Pi photo‑booth prototype shipped, PureScript wins on tooling and browser debugging, WhatsApp acquisition boosts Erlang’s credibility, and LLVM teams consider simplifying type tracking; usability research and deployment paths, not sloganized theory, drive adoption.
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chapters (6)
- 0:00Start
- 3:21Aaron Hsu
- 7:14How We Can Make Our Functional Programming Language More Popular in the Mainstream
- 27:59Keyboard Layouts
- 34:28The Importance of Being Multi-Paradigm Rather than Purely Functional
- 52:13Llvm Language
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