34: “Pure functions”, with special guests Brandon Williams and Stephen Celis

Brandon Williams and Stephen Celis, formerly iOS developers at Kickstarter and now hosts of Point-Free, join John to talk about functional programming in Swift, and how it can be used to build apps, websites, and even control the world.

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Links

• Brandon on Twitter
• Stephen on Twitter
• John on Twitter
• Point-Free
• The Functional Swift Conference
• Protocols with Associated Types - Alexis Gallagher
• UIKit Styling with Functions
• Server-Side Swift from Scratch
• SwiftNIO
• Episode with Tanner Nelson of Vapor
• swift-html
• iOSSnapshotTestCase
• DVR
• Stephen's NSSpain talk
• John's system design talk
• Functional core, imperative shell
• Stephen's website
• Intro and outro music by Dariusz Dziuk