Yeah! Six months after graduating from Northwestern University I quit my cushy 6-figure WFH job to move to Finland as a quasi-illegal immigrant. (I say "quasi-" because "STEM undergrad from a top university moving to a much poorer country" is, ah, not what you usually think of.) I was unemployed for over a year due to passport issues, living in a tiny vacation town of ~10,000 close to the Arctic Circle, and used... - Source: Hacker News / 5 months ago

If anyone else is wondering, it looks like HPFFP is "Haskell Programming from First Principles" :) https://haskellbook.com/. - Source: Hacker News / 11 months ago

Forget about C++. Pick up a copy of Modern Programming Languages: A Practical Introduction. Learn SML; forget about the rest of the chapters. Then, learn Haskell from this book. Optionally work through this book. Optionally read through SICP (not recommended). Source: about 1 year ago

Parallel and Concurrent Programming in Haskell is a fantastic resource for learning some of the more interesting bits of Haskell at a low level. I usually recommend it as a second book after Haskell Programming from First Principles, which is a super comprehensive and meaty intro to Haskell. Source: over 1 year ago

I would suggest that you learn Haskell first as a programming language and ignore type level programming. A good introduction to Haskell may be helpful to you: https://haskellbook.com/. Source: over 1 year ago

‍For the rest of this post I’ll list off some more tactical examples of things that you can do towards this goal. Savvy readers will note that these are not novel ideas of my own, and in fact a lot of the things on this list are popular core features in modern languages such as Kotlin, Rust, and Clojure. Kotlin, in particular, has done an amazing job of emphasizing these best practices while still being an... - Source: dev.to / about 2 months ago

This article will explain how to write a simple service in Clojure. The sweet spot of making applications in Clojure is that you can expressively use an entire rich Java ecosystem. Less code, less boilerplate: it is possible to achieve more with less. In this example, I use most of the libraries from the Java world; everything else is a thin Clojure wrapper around Java libraries. - Source: dev.to / 2 months ago

I have a tangential question that is related to this cool new feature. Warning: the question I ask comes from a part of my brain that is currently melted due to heavy thinking. Context: I write a fair amount of Clojure, and in Lisps the code itself is a tree. Just like this F# parallel graph type-checker. In Lisps, one would use Macros to perform compile-time computation to accomplish something like this, I think.... - Source: Hacker News / 8 months ago

As an analogy - my face hasn't changed all that much in a past few years, and I haven't changed my profile picture in those few years. Does it really mean that I'm unmaintained/dead? > Where can I find latest documentation [...]? The answer is still https://clojure.org/. And https://clojuredocs.org/ but it's community-maintained so might occasionally be missing some things right after they're released. E.g. As of... - Source: Hacker News / 10 months ago

As a Java/Scala user you should check out Clojure! It is highly recommended (https://clojure.org). Source: over 1 year ago