Functional programming with generics? (Go Time #249)

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We did an episode on functional programming in Go with Aaron Schlesinger back in 2019… But that was before generics were a thing. Let’s revisit the topic and discuss the pros and cons now that we have generics. What’s changed? What hasn’t?

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Featuring:

• Aaron Schlesinger – Twitter, GitHub, Website
• Johnny Boursiquot – Twitter, GitHub, Website

Show Notes:

• Go Time #87: Functional programming?
• Dylan Meeus’s GopherCon 2020
• Aaron’s GopherCon 2017

Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

Chapters

1. Opener (00:00:00)

2. Sponsor: Sourcegraph (00:00:57)

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3. Intro (00:02:40)

4. Welcoming Aaron (00:03:23)

5. Setting the stage (00:04:30)

6. FP recap before generics (00:06:39)

7. FP libraries adopting generics (00:16:09)

8. Sponsor: Honeycomb (00:20:58)

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9. Adopting generics slowly (00:22:39)

10. Just because you can doesn't mean you should (00:25:14)

11. Is Go still missing FP things? (00:34:58)

12. Sponsor: Ship It! (00:39:43)

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13. One great FP pattern (00:41:12)

14. Why Aaron went back to school (00:44:48)

15. Unpopular Opinions! (00:47:31)

16. Aaron's unpop (00:48:14)

17. Time to go! (00:50:21)

18. Outro + clip from JS Party #163 (00:50:47)

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