Alanna Irving from the Open Collective team interviewed m on Witchcraft: the magic of math, functional programming, and community.
Did you know she started in music composition?
Programming absolutely scratches the same part of my brain as music composition. Instead of writing instructions for an instrumentalist, you’re writing it for a computer, but the parallels are very clear. All but one person in my composition cohort (who became a professor of music) are now programmers, because it was a crash course in that way of thinking.
It's a great overview of Brooke's background, her love of functional programming and math, and the Witchcraft library for Elixir:
witchcrafters
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witchcraft
Monads and other dark magic for Elixir
Witchcraft is a library providing common algebraic and categorical abstractions to Elixir
Monoids, functors, monads, arrows, categories, and other dark magic right at your fingertips.
README
Table of Contents
- Quick Start
- Library Family
- Values
- Type Class Hierarchy
- Writing Class Instances
- Operators
- Haskell Translation Table
- Prior Art and Further Reading
- Credits
Quick Start
def deps do
[{:witchcraft, "~> 1.0"}]
end
# ...
use Witchcraft
Library Family
Quark TypeClass
↘ ↙
Witchcraft
↓
Algae
Values
Beginner Friendliness
You shouldn't have to learn another language just to understand powerful abstractions By enabling people to use a language that they already know, and is already in the same ballpark in terms of values (emphasis on immutability, &c), we can teach and learn…
You can follow Brooke here on DevTO as @expede:
Edit: Is third person weird when you're talking about yourself???
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