JavaScript for learning

JS for Learning

JS for Learning

•You use it every day at work

JS for Learning

•You use it every day at work

•You can mold it into a lot of different styles

JS for Learning

•You use it every day at work

•You can mold it into a lot of different styles

•In my experience, it’s the least awkward paradigm

•(live example)

JS for Learning

•You use it every day at work

•You can mold it into a lot of different styles (show examples)

•In my experience, it’s the least awkward paradigm

•Mixed paradigm so you can ease in

•(live example)

•osteele’s functional.js

•lambdajs

•underscore/scoreunder

•fancy

Libraries

Level up

•Start with map/filter/reduce/some/every

•Pure functions within objects

•Play with curry and compose

•Sensible point free

•Category theory

Hurdles

Hurdles

•Where’s the consistency?

Hurdles

•Where’s the consistency?

•Math, math, math

•Haskell: Road to logic by Doets & van Eijck

•Conceptual Mathematics by Lawvere & Schanuel

Hurdles

•No one popular way

•Math, math, math

•Missing a large community

Gotchas

Gotchas

•Eager Evaluation

Gotchas

•Eager Evaluation

•Rewriting language constructs

Gotchas

•Eager Evaluation

•Rewriting language constructs

•Loose variables

Unexpected Delights

Unexpected Delights

•Dynamic type safety

Unexpected Delights

•Dynamic type safety

•Testability

Unexpected Delights

•Dynamic type safety

•Testability

•Compile to JS...but it’s so pretty!