Function Vilnius is back from holidays, get ready for meetup #6

Hi functional people!

Hope you had a nice summer and your mind is clear, fresh and open for new ideas, because we return to drop some knowledge. We are very excited to invite you to our next meetup!

Date/location

Date: Wednesday, October 21st.

Location: Adform (new) office, Sporto g. 18, Vilnius

Please RSVP here.

Talks

“Golang from Scala developer’s perspective” by Svetlana Bozhko

Golang is becoming more and more popular. Most likely many of you have heard of its upgraded garbage collector and possibilities to work with lightweight threads – goroutines. Obviously, Golang is quite a good choice for server-side software oriented on a huge load. As Scala backend developer, I am a big fan of functional programming and actor model. Golang seems very promising, but from the first glance, its a totally imperative language. In my speech I’m going to tell about my experiments with Golang and attempt to use it as a functional language.

“A look through the lens” by Alex Gryzlov

What is bidirectional programming? Are lenses coalgebras or profunctors? Is any of this mumbo-jumbo remotely useful? Let’s try to figure out together! 🐮