Functional Programming Videos Hacker News Recommends — Page 2

demo#630

A Sudoku Solver in APL

Dyalog

“I've always liked this video, where one of the Dyalog developers effortlessly writes a Sudoku solver in APL”

4 HN recommenders · 2015–2022

talk#667

Simplicity Ain't Easy - Stuart Halloway

ClojureTV

“He talks about his definition of "simple" (by digging into what the original English definition was) and what that means for code.”

5 HN recommenders · 2013–2017

talk#668

Clojure Concurrency - Rich Hickey

ClojureTV

“one my favorite talks I ever went to.”

5 HN recommenders · 2013–2023

talk#672

Factor: an extensible interactive language

Google TechTalks

“It absolutely blew my mind.”

5 HN recommenders · 2014–2025

talk#683

"Shen: A Sufficiently Advanced Lisp" by Aditya Siram

Strange Loop Conference

“@deech's talks, though older now, are fantastic and relevant[1,2].”

2 HN recommenders · 2015–2024

talk#690

ElixirConf 2018 - Docker and OTP Friends or Foes - Daniel Azuma

ElixirConf

“I would recommend watching Dan Azuma's fantastic video (stick around for the live demo)”

4 HN recommenders · 2018–2023

talk#699

GigCityElixir23 - Bryan Hunter

Groxio

“an excellent presentation of design/architecture of a Real-World fault-tolerant and distributed System in Erlang/Elixir”

4 HN recommenders · 2023–2025

talk#707

"Outperforming Imperative with Pure Functional Languages" by Richard Feldman

Strange Loop Conference

“As a starting point for those nitty grittys, this talk is probably as good as any”

6 HN recommenders · 2021–2025

talk#717

Pure Functional Programming in Excel • Felienne Hermans • GOTO 2016

GOTO Conferences

“Felienne has a great talk on functional programming in Excel”

5 HN recommenders · 2017–2025

talk#718

Zach Tellman - Everything Will Flow

ClojureTV

“He talks about queues and how they break down under load.”

4 HN recommenders · 2015–2022

talk#748

Constraints Liberate, Liberties Constrain — Runar Bjarnason

Scala World

“It had a real impact on the way I think about the design of systems.”

5 HN recommenders · 2016–2025

talk#771

Are We There Yet - Rich Hickey

Zhang Jian

“One of the best "why Clojure" talks that I've seen”

4 HN recommenders · 2021–2026

talk#779

Ruby Manor 3 - Programming with Nothing by Tom Stuart

Confreaks

“An awesome video which changed my perspective towards lambda calculus and programming in general”

4 HN recommenders · 2013–2019

talk#815

Hacker Way: Rethinking Web App Development at Facebook

Meta Developers

“these talks, they are the ones that sold me on React”

5 HN recommenders · 2014–2024

demo#817

Symbolics Lisp Machine demo Jan 2013

Kalman Reti

“It makes working on VSCode today look like banging rocks together”

5 HN recommenders · 2014–2024

tutorial#821

David Beazley - Lambda Calculus from the Ground Up - PyCon 2019

PyCon 2019

“David Beazley gives a brilliant introduction to lambda calculus here”

4 HN recommenders · 2019–2021

lecture#827

Simon Peyton-Jones: Escape from the ivory tower: the Haskell journey

Churchill College, University of Cambridge

“It's a funny talk and it's worth watching in full”

5 HN recommenders · 2017–2024

talk#836

clojure.core/typing - Matt Adereth

ClojureTV

“it is a fantastic talk but the part related to this starts at 17:35”

4 HN recommenders · 2016–2023

talk#850

John Carmack's keynote at Quakecon 2013 part 4

Kostiantyn Kostin

“There's an old video [0] where he talks in-depth about his explorations of functional programming.”

5 HN recommenders · 2013–2025

talk#859

On the Expressive Power of Programming Languages by Shriram Krishnamurthi [PWLConf 2019]

PapersWeLove

“Shriram Krishnamurthi's talk from two years ago on this paper might be more approachable.”

5 HN recommenders · 2020–2026

talk#887

"We Really Don't Know How to Compute!" - Gerald Sussman (2011)

Strange Loop Conference

“it made me question my views on what I think programming is”

5 HN recommenders · 2022–2026

talk#890

React.js Conf 2015 - Immutable Data and React

Meta Developers

“there's a great conference talk on this topic by Lee Byron from Facebook”

5 HN recommenders · 2015–2022

talk#898

Stuart Halloway - Narcissistic Design

Reaktor

“a great talk by Stuart Halloway called Narcissistic Design.”

4 HN recommenders · 2018–2021

talk#903

Simon Peyton Jones: Data Parallel Haskell

nuACM

“a promising language abstraction to do hard things with parallelism relatively easily”

5 HN recommenders · 2010–2017

talk#911

John Wiegley: Putting Lenses to Work

Bay Area Haskell

“you can learn enough lens to be productive in 1 hours with this talk without reading docs at all”

4 HN recommenders · 2020–2024

talk#921

Netflix JavaScript Talks - Async JavaScript with Reactive Extensions

Matt Marenghi

“have a look at this presentation about Observables at Netflix as it's quite mind changing”

5 HN recommenders · 2014–2016

talk#923

Elm Europe 2017 - Evan Czaplicki - The life of a file

Elm Europe

“Just stick everything in the same file until it actually hurts. This presentation[0] gets it right.”

4 HN recommenders · 2019–2025

talk#996

Domain Modeling Made Functional - Scott Wlaschin - KanDDDinsky 2019

KanDDDinsky

“this talk opened my eyes to the power of f# philosophy and type system”

3 HN recommenders · 2020–2026

talk#1011

Jordan Walke - React to the Future

ReasonConf

“I'd highly recommend Jordan Walke's (creator of React) talk on the ideas behind ReasonML”

4 HN recommenders · 2019–2022

talk#1030

Rich Hickey: Deconstructing the Database

InfoQ

“Rich Hickey's talk on the design of Datomic is also something every programmer should see at least once”

4 HN recommenders · 2012–2020

talk#1032

Edwin Brady - Idris 2 - Type-driven Development of Idris

Curry On!

“Watch Edwin Brady's demo of Idris 2 [2] to see this form of interactive development in action.”

4 HN recommenders · 2019–2023

tutorial#1034

Depth-first search in APL

Dyalog

2 HN recommenders · 2019–2021

talk#1040

Debugging with the Scientific Method - Stuart Halloway

ClojureTV

“changed how I debug problems. I try to watch it once every year or two.”

4 HN recommenders · 2015–2023

talk#1073

The Functional Programmer's Toolkit - Scott Wlaschin

NDC Conferences

“This was by far the best introduction to monoid, monads and few other functional programming terms.”

4 HN recommenders · 2019–2021

talk#1106

ElixirConf 2018 - Keynote - Chris McCord

ElixirConf

“you can't ignore it, the coolest thing happening right now about server-side rendering”

6 HN recommenders · 2018–2019

demo#1111

Stephen Wolfram's Introduction to the Wolfram Language

Wolfram

“The demos are all pretty impressive”

4 HN recommenders · 2014–2015

talk#1128

Four Solutions to a Trivial Problem - Guy Steele Jr.

Google TechTalks

“watch Guy Steele's talks [1][2][3] if you are interested in data parallelism!”

4 HN recommenders · 2017–2023

demo#1130

SYMBOLICS S-PACKAGES 3D GRAPHICS AND ANIMATION DEMO

Red Martian

“I really enjoyed the Symbolics graphics and animations demo[0] linked in the article.”

4 HN recommenders · 2014–2026

talk#1149

The Simple Essence of Automatic Differentiation - Conal Elliott

Microsoft Research

“There's a talk that Conal gives that makes the paper a bit more accessible”

3 HN recommenders · 2018–2023

demo#1176

Erlang: The Movie

uncertainyesterday

“the designers of Erlang demo some of the qualities of the Erlang system in a delightful way”

4 HN recommenders · 2013–2026

talk#1180

John Hughes - Testing the Hard Stuff and Staying Sane

ClojureTV

“John Hughes (not the filmmaker) gives a great talk about it”

4 HN recommenders · 2016–2026

talk#1182

Joe Armstrong - Keynote: The Forgotten Ideas in Computer Science - Code BEAM SF 2018

Code Sync

“Ted has a knack for reframing things in ways that make the arbitrariness of certain historical decisions clear”

4 HN recommenders · 2018–2022

talk#1206

Ron Pressler - Pull Push: Please stop polluting our imperative languages with pure concepts-Curry On

Curry On!

“one of my recent favorite videos generally on this topic has been from Curry On conference”

3 HN recommenders · 2015–2024

talk#1233

Literate Programming in the Large

Next Day Video

“well worth watching: it talks about real, huge comolex systems, and how lp can help bring them back under control”

3 HN recommenders · 2014–2024

talk#1237

Om Next - David Nolen

ClojureTV

“David Nolen does a great job talking about the trade offs and the evolution of everything in this talk”

3 HN recommenders · 2015

talk#1304

"Data Driven UIs, Incrementally" by Yaron Minsky

Strange Loop Conference

“Any discussion about incremental UI should include Yaron Minsky's talk about Jane Street's OCaml framework, incr_dom from 2016”

4 HN recommenders · 2018–2022

talk#1322

Practical Common Lisp

Google TechTalks

“I will forever think of this talk by Peter Siebel”

3 HN recommenders · 2011–2025

talk#1359

Gabriella Gonzalez – How to market Haskell to a mainstream programmer

Konfy

“although aimed at haskell programmers, is really about any technology looking to grow into the mainstream”

2 HN recommenders · 2020–2023