Functional Programming Videos Hacker News Recommends

talk#2

Ruby Conf 12 - Y Not- Adventures in Functional Programming by Jim Weirich

Confreaks

“perhaps the most entertaining and interesting technical talk I've ever seen.”

17 HN recommenders · 2013–2026

talk#15

The Soul of Erlang and Elixir • Sasa Juric • GOTO 2019

GOTO Conferences

“Watch this if you want to understand why so many people fall in love with it.”

16 HN recommenders · 2019–2024

talk#17

"Simple Made Easy" - Rich Hickey (2011)

Strange Loop Conference

“is a must-watch (even if you never touch Clojure)”

14 HN recommenders · 2022–2026

talk#31

"Making Impossible States Impossible" by Richard Feldman

elm-conf

“the talk is Elm lang focused, but the concepts still apply to other languages.”

9 HN recommenders · 2017–2026

talk#53

William Byrd on "The Most Beautiful Program Ever Written" [PWL NYC]

PapersWeLove

“I can't recommend the talk Dr Byrd did on this enough”

11 HN recommenders · 2017–2026

talk#69

The Value of Values with Rich Hickey

InfoQ

“is what finally sold me on the benefits of pure functional programming and immutable data structures.”

10 HN recommenders · 2014–2023

talk#77

Why Isn't Functional Programming the Norm? – Richard Feldman

Metosin

“This talk by Richard Feldman is an excellent discussion about why Functional Programming is not the norm”

12 HN recommenders · 2019–2025

talk#80

Maybe Not - Rich Hickey

ClojureTV

“Rich Hickey's "Maybe Not" should be watched by anyone who thinks nulls/nils/undefineds are okay.”

14 HN recommenders · 2018–2025

talk#87

Solving Problems the Clojure Way - Rafal Dittwald

Clojure/north

“I urge you to watch this fantastic video which illustrates procedural, OOP(lite), and FP approaches to a sample problem”

10 HN recommenders · 2019–2025

lecture#91

Lecture 1A: Overview and Introduction to Lisp

MIT OpenCourseWare

“I watched and cannot recommend it enough, even for seasoned programmers”

10 HN recommenders · 2019–2026

demo#98

Conway's Game Of Life in APL

Dyalog

“Try watching this video; it will only take you 8 minutes”

11 HN recommenders · 2010–2024

lecture#106

Lecture 1A | MIT 6.001 Structure and Interpretation, 1986

MIT OpenCourseWare

“blew my mind and made me switch from being a UX designer dabbling in Rails to a full blown programmer.”

11 HN recommenders · 2012–2024

talk#126

Effective Programs - 10 Years of Clojure - Rich Hickey

ClojureTV

“Whole video is gold, is my fav programming talk of all time.”

10 HN recommenders · 2017–2026

talk#140

Erlang Factory 2014 - That's 'Billion' with a 'B': Scaling to the Next Level at WhatsApp

Erlang Solutions

“watch this talk and imagine trying to recreate that system with only a handful of server engineers”

6 HN recommenders · 2014–2022

talk#144

Hammock Driven Development - Rich Hickey

ClojureTV

“Both of these talks are in my top 5.”

12 HN recommenders · 2014–2024

talk#161

Tim Ewald - Clojure: Programming with Hand Tools

ClojureTV

“I loved this talk on how as your tooling becomes more complex and automated, you start to lose sight of simpler solutions to problems.”

9 HN recommenders · 2014–2024

lecture#162

Brian Beckman: Don't fear the Monad

jasonofthel33t

“This video is all you, as a practicing programmer, need to know about monads and it's just 1 hour long.”

9 HN recommenders · 2012–2024

talk#170

Ruby Conf 12 - Boundaries by Gary Bernhardt

Confreaks

“I highly recommend this video for a more philosophical take on how to do "impure FP" without OO”

8 HN recommenders · 2015–2024

talk#177

Clasp: Common Lisp using LLVM and C++ for Molecular Metaprogramming

Google TechTalks

“I challenge anyone to watch this lecture from Christian Schafmeister and say they are not impressed”

8 HN recommenders · 2015–2024

talk#192

Spec-ulation Keynote - Rich Hickey

ClojureTV

“Whenever an idea about API versioning springs into mind it is always worthwhile to watch Rich Hickey's Spec-ulation talk”

10 HN recommenders · 2016–2024

lecture#211

Category Theory 1.1: Motivation and Philosophy

Bartosz Milewski

“I think they are a very nice place to start learning these things.”

11 HN recommenders · 2016–2026

talk#218

The Language of the System - Rich Hickey

ClojureTV

“it has really changed the way I look at distributed persistent storage.”

10 HN recommenders · 2013–2025

talk#252

Invited Talk - Guy Steele

ClojureTV

“Excellent talk by Guy Steele explaining the history of maths/comp notations”

7 HN recommenders · 2017–2023

talk#278

Bottom Up vs Top Down Design in Clojure - Mark Bastian

ClojureTV

“is the talk that really made it clear to me how to design programs this way.”

5 HN recommenders · 2016–2021

talk#284

Julia: to Lisp or not to Lisp?

European Lisp Symposium

“the recent brilliant talk about design of Julia”

4 HN recommenders · 2016–2022

talk#287

"The Mess We're In" by Joe Armstrong

Strange Loop Conference

“one of those talks which were incredibly funny and informative at the same time”

10 HN recommenders · 2014–2025

talk#303

"Programming a 144-computer chip to minimize power" - Chuck Moore (2013)

Strange Loop Conference

“This talk by Chuck Moore at Strange Loop was amazing”

7 HN recommenders · 2021–2024

talk#310

"Stop Writing Dead Programs" by Jack Rusher (Strange Loop 2022)

Strange Loop Conference

“One of my favorite talks is”

9 HN recommenders · 2022–2025

talk#325

"Unison: a new distributed programming language" by Paul Chiusano

Strange Loop Conference

“this talk might be a better introduction than just skimming at the landing page.”

7 HN recommenders · 2020–2023

talk#326

Hey Underscore, You're Doing It Wrong!

InfoQ

“this video gives a pretty good explanation in ~30 minutes”

9 HN recommenders · 2014–2022

talk#331

Rails Conf 2012 Keynote: Simplicity Matters by Rich Hickey

Confreaks

“maybe watch this version instead, since it's almost the same talk but for a Rails Conference, with a few references”

8 HN recommenders · 2015–2024

talk#347

Functional Composition - Chris Ford

ClojureTV

“Recommend this talk that made Music 'click' for me.”

6 HN recommenders · 2013–2023

talk#353

Domain Modeling Made Functional - Scott Wlaschin

NDC Conferences

“If anyone is looking for a really eye-opening video take a look at that this.”

6 HN recommenders · 2018–2024

talk#389

Chris McCord - Keynote: Phoenix LiveView - Interactive Apps without Javascript - ElixirConf EU 2019

Code Sync

“Great talk about it from the developer here”

4 HN recommenders · 2019–2024

tutorial#394

Emacs Rocks! Episode 14: Paredit

emacsrocks

“it's well worth the 3:40.”

8 HN recommenders · 2013–2022

comedy#424

Erlang The Movie II: The Sequel

gar1t

“I use Erlang the Movie and its Sequel whenever I teach my classes at Oxford Uni.”

6 HN recommenders · 2013–2025

talk#426

CppCon 2017: Juan Pedro Bolivar Puente “Postmodern immutable data structures”

CppCon

“Immer [0][1] seems like a really serious attempt at bringing high-quality persistent data structures to C++.”

5 HN recommenders · 2017–2025

talk#461

"Production Prolog" by Michael Hendricks

Strange Loop Conference

“gives an excellent high-level survey of the uses, advantages, and drawbacks of Prolog”

6 HN recommenders · 2015–2023

talk#479

Functional architecture - The pits of success - Mark Seemann

NDC Conferences

“Here is a great talk demonstrating that by following a simple functional approach, your code can naturally fall into a “pit of success”

5 HN recommenders · 2018–2025

interview#489

Joe Armstrong & Alan Kay - Joe Armstrong interviews Alan Kay

Erlang Solutions

“To get some perspective on both of their perspectives, here's "Joe Armstrong interviews Alan Kay"”

6 HN recommenders · 2016–2026

lecture#525

Lambda Calculus - Fundamentals of Lambda Calculus & Functional Programming in JavaScript

Fullstack Academy

“they are the most approachable videos on the topic I have ever seen.”

5 HN recommenders · 2019–2024

talk#532

"Transducers" by Rich Hickey

Strange Loop Conference

“If you want a really good intro, watch Rich Hickey's talk about transducers”

6 HN recommenders · 2014–2025

interview#534

Hewitt, Meijer and Szyperski: The Actor Model (everything you wanted to know...)

jasonofthel33t

“It's truly a masterclass.”

5 HN recommenders · 2015–2025

demo#557

Interactive programming Flappy Bird in ClojureScript

Bruce Hauman

“I still marvel at Bruce Hauman's demo”

6 HN recommenders · 2015–2020

tutorial#562

Build a real-time Twitter clone in 15 minutes with LiveView and Phoenix 1.5

Chris McCord

“the demo completely blew my mind”

7 HN recommenders · 2020–2025

talk#578

Rich Hickey rants about HttpServletRequest in 1080p: Death By Specificity from Clojure Made Simple

Fred Overflow

“A classic rant by Rich Hickey”

5 HN recommenders · 2020–2026

talk#599

Evan Czaplicki - Let's be mainstream! User focused design in Elm - Curry On

Curry On!

“He makes a strong case for Elm not as a language-to-rule-them-all, but as a tool for the average programmer”

7 HN recommenders · 2015–2023

talk#626

"Controlling Time and Space: understanding the many formulations of FRP" by Evan Czaplicki

Strange Loop Conference

“I highly recommend Evan's Strange Loop talk”

5 HN recommenders · 2014–2026