"Finally! Tagless and Fancy Free Monads" with Lance Gatlin


Details
We're excited to have Lance Gatlin speaking at this month's NY Scala meetup!
In this talk, we'll explore "final tagless" as an alternative to the free monad.
At the end of this talk, you'll know:
- How to write Scala final tagless languages, bridges and interpreters
- If monads are evil and the work of "he who shall not be named"
- The pros and cons between the free monad and final tagless
- Some suggestions on when to use the free monad or final tagless
Doors open at 6:30pm, and the talk begins at 7pm. Venue courtesy of our friends at Tapad.
About Lance
Lance is a professional Scala adventurer, open source loner, longevity nut and semi-regular awkward dancer. Lance has been exploring Scala for the last 6 years and recently renewed his Scala vows on his Scala-versary: "I'll never quit you... not like those others". Lance enjoys polishing his shiny sword of functional programming +2 but finds his patrons prefer just "getting things done" with their rusty daggers. Lance also used to do a lot of improv, has deep thoughts about one-handed typing and will win, eventually, by living longer than everyone else.

"Finally! Tagless and Fancy Free Monads" with Lance Gatlin