Functional Reactive Programming

For this meetup, we will have two presentations: one from Stephen Blackheath, author of Functional Reactive Programming (https://www.manning.com/books/functional-reactive-programming) and one from Nick Sarten.

The why and how of Functional Reactive Programming with Sodium - Stephen Blackheath

Event-based application logic is a special challenge with today's ever greater demands on the programmer's art. Functional Reactive Programming (FRP) applies functional methods to transform the event handling problem.

This talk introduces FRP by example - a video game example and composable forms.

Also a short discussion of memory management challenges that arose in the C++ implementation (https://github.com/SodiumFRP/sodium-cxx).

Some features coming in C++17 - Nick Sarten

Nick will present a brief overview of some of the new features coming in the C++17 standard.

Unusual agenda:

18:00 Arrive, mingle, grab a drink

18:15ish Stephen's talk starts

19:15 Pizza

19:30 Nick's talk