Scale By The Bay 2018: Rúnar Bjarnason Interview
Recording: Scale By The Bay 2018: Rúnar Bjarnason Interview
you all right my name is rune are I work at a company called unison computing we are based in Boston and I'm also one of the authors of the red book functional programming in Scala we are building a programming language called unison and the coolest thing about it is that we can make it very easy to build highly distributed systems and it should be as easy to build you know a large elastic computation as it is to program a single computer [Music] definitely the programming one I'm I'm a programming languages guy and so most interested and the programming languages track I'm a big functional programming evangelists and so I you know I normally I'm kind of a one-trick pony I talk about category theory and I talk about functional programming and how it's awesome and so best practice you know think about functional programming and yeah right compositional software I'm sort of hoping to learn to sort of the people we're side of things you know that I think that's a skill that you know we nerds often kind of overlook it's like how to interact with people how to build systems of people and out how to you know like build an operation and effectively well sir Scala has profoundly changed my life I you know I was doing Henry Prize Java you know before and and my actually my co-author on the book of Paulette Rosano called they called me up and we were doing you know dabbling in Scala and he called me up and said I'm doing purely functional programming full time in Scala in Boston and I was like all right let me sell my house I'm just gonna move to Boston and like do this for real and like we wrote this book together and it was you know very well-received than people people enjoyed it and yeah you know we wrote a I think a pretty good pretty good intro to functional programming and like I traveled the world talking about Scala and talking about functional programming so yeah it's definitely just turned my life and into a completely different thing and then how will functional programming change the world for the better I think you know compositional software I think is is super important I think that writing software is going to be more and more important in the in the future and it's going to be as fundamental as skill as it's just reading and so writing software that that is compositional and so one can can predictably compose with other software that we write later and maybe millennia in the future I think it's just going to be super important and also just for for for people to feel like I read every buddy is going to learn how to write software I think and it's going to be functional [Music] yes there are lots of great people here the my favorite thing about this conference is just coming and meeting old friends from the scala community functional programming community in general and meeting new friends as well [Music]