Tech Talks are in-depth technical discussions. Today's interview is with John A De Goes. We talk about performance problems with monad transformer on the jvm, various flavours of IO monads and reasoning about polymorphic type signatures.  On the lighter side of things, we discuss how to write technical articles well, f

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Guest: John De Goes @jdegoes Full show notes are at https://developeronfire.com/podcast/episode-150-john-a-de-goes-openly-facing-fears

In this episode I talk with John De Goes. We cover his introduction to functional programming, reasons for starting a functional programming conference, evolution of LambdaConf, what to look forward to at LambdaConf 2016, the choice to pick PureScript at SlamData, and more.

02:54 - John A. De Goes IntroductionTwitter GitHub BlogSlamData06:34 - Phil Freeman IntroductionTwitter GitHub Blog07:38 - What is PureScript?09:11 - FeaturesExtensible Effects12:24 - Overcoming the Vocabulary Problem in Functional ProgrammingGang of Four Book (Design Patterns)purescript-halogen20:07 - Prerequisites to