[lihaoyi]

Author here. This blog post is actually kind of funny; I had a flash of clarity one afternoon that wouldn't go away so I spent 8 hours in a manic frenzy banging it out in one pass with no editing. Not how most of my writing happens (typically its a tedious slog with multiple passes of editing and refinement)

Anyone who likes this article on my blog should check out this presentation on applying this philosophy to build tools

https://youtu.be/j6uThGxx-18?si=ZF8yOEkd4wxlq84X

While the blog post is very abstract, the video demonstrates how to take the abstract philosophy and use it to help solve a very concrete, very common problem

[binary132]

Hi Li, appreciate your work. How do you feel the state of Scala is these days? I took the EPFL intro on Coursera years ago, but I was always disappointed by two things: the community feels very fragmented outside of IDEA (RIP ENSIME — oh, is it back now?), and it seems like Spark completely overwhelms the rest of the Scala ecosystem. I’ve mostly moved on these days but still think fondly of it from time to time.

[carapace]

Have you read Backus' original FP paper "Can programming be liberated from the von Neumann style?: a functional style and its algebra of programs"?

https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/359576.359579