A Decision Maker's Guide to Typed Functional Languages • Evan Czaplicki • GOTO 2024

This presentation was recorded at GOTO Copenhagen 2024. #GOTOcon #GOTOcph
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Evan Czaplicki - Creator & Developer of Elm ‪@EvanCzaplicki‬

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ABSTRACT
Why are companies quietly using languages like Elm, OCaml, and Haskell?

No development department gets in trouble for going with industry standard languages, but that also means there is sometimes space to gain a considerable advantage over your competetion through language selection.

Drawing from notable success stories like Jane Street, Standard Chartered, Corvus, and Vendr, we will evaluate typed functional languages from a business perspective: What are the concrete business advantages gained by the companies using typed functional languages? When are these advantages likely (and unlikely) to translate to other businesses? And how can a business responsibly evaluate if the same advantages are available in their particular case? [...]

TIMECODES
00:00 Intro
01:30 Engineering department
02:57 Case studies
03:41 Case study: Jane Street Capital
12:28 Case study: Standard Chartered
18:34 Case study: Corvus Insurance
22:25 Case study: Vendr
27:15 Case study: NoRedInk
33:29 Case study: Brilliant
35:32 Conclusion: Developer efficiency
36:20 Conclusion: Retention
36:45 Things to know
38:11 Things to ask
40:39 Outro

Download slides and read the full abstract here:
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RECOMMENDED BOOKS
Richard Feldman • Elm in Action • amzn.to/387kujI
Jeremy Fairbank • Programming Elm • amzn.to/2WhZCE8
Wolfgang Loder • Web Applications with Elm • amzn.to/3jblQ3q
Cristian Salcescu • Functional Programming in JavaScript • amzn.to/3y75jBS

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