Functional Geekery Episode 122 - Brian Troutwine

In this episode I talk with Brian Troutwine. We catch up with his work in Erlang, working in Rust, applying functional programming techniques to Rust, learning Erlang compared to Rust, his book “Concurrent Rust” that is in the works, and much more.

Our Guest, Brian Troutwine

https://blog.troutwine.us/
@bltroutwine on Twitter

Conference Announcements

CodeBEAM STO, formerly Erlang User Conference, celebrates the 20th Anniversary of Erlang being made Open Sourced, and will be taking place May 31st and June 1st. For more information and to register visit https://codesync.global.

Monadic Party, a 5 day Haskell Summer School, will be taking place in Poznań, Poland the 11th-15th of June. Visit https://monadic.party/ for more information and to register.

International Conference on Functional Programming 2018 will be taking place September 23 – 29th in St. Louis, MO. For more information, and to register visit: https://icfp18.sigplan.org/

StrangeLoop 2018 will be taking place September 27th and 28th, with a pre-conference day on the 26th in St. Louis, MO. To keep updated as details become announced you can find out more at: https://www.thestrangeloop.com/

If you have a conference related to functional programming, contact me, and I will be happy to announce it.

Announcements

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Topics [@3:15]

About Brian
What Brian has been up to in the past few years
Mostly Erlang
Erlang
Rust
The Charming Genius of the Apollo Guidance Computer
AdRoll
Postmates
C++
Cernen
Hopper
Quantiles
If Brian was spoiled by working on a system with 1M TPS
Knight Capital Group Cautionary Tale
Property Testing
Beginner’s Luck
RackSpace
Software being able to inspect itself
SmallCheck
Chaos Engineering
How Brian was introduced to Erlang
Joe Armstrong’s thesis paper
Prolog
OpenMP
SML
Constructivist approach to programming
Idris
Agda
Coq
Working in Erlang professionally at RackSpace
Bringing others up to speed with Erlang
Mochi
Elixir
Programming Erlang
Erlang and OTP in Action
Learn You Some Erlang
Difference in Erlang/Elixir approachability since Brian started learning it
“I’ve never known an easier time to learn Erlang [and Elixir] than we have right now”
Similarity in Brian’s learning Erlang to learning Rust
Rust The Book
Tokio
The ML family typed inspire side of Rust
How much does functional ideas fit into Rust in practice
Thinking in Erlang as sequential inside of a process which is concurrent
Applying a similar approach in Rust
What is meant by “Safety” in Rust
Using C++ at AdRoll vs how Brian uses Rust today
Traits in Rust
Working on a book on Concurrency in Rust
Rust Concurrency
Andrew Stone on Actor System in Rust at CodeMesh
How Rust approaches concurrency at a language level
What does saying “Rust is Memory Safe” mean?
Atomic Reference Counter (ARC)
Crates.io
Rayon
Crossbeam
CodeMesh 2018 in London
Designing for Scalability with Erlang/OTP
Programming Rust from O’Reilly
Rust in Action from Manning
ripgrep
quickcheck
Rust in WebAssembly
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Andrew Stone’s work at VMWare

As always, a giant Thank You goes to David Belcher for the logo design.