Blog
The latest news, posts, and talks from the Arrow community
Arrow Meta - Enabling Functional Programming in the Kotlin Compiler
Fri Oct 18 2019
Arrow Meta is a library that empowers library and application authors with the ability to write plugins for the Kotlin compiler. Compiler plugins have access to all compiler phases and can intercept and modify the AST, descriptors, and IR intermediate lang for bytecode generation.
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Kotlin and Arrow: the functional way
Thu Aug 08 2019
Kotlin is a great language for developing server-side applications; it's an object-oriented language and also a functional one, supporting features such as function types, lambdas or higher order functions. But...is this enough to switch completely from an imperative paradigm to a functional paradigm?
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Effect polymorphism with Arrow FX
Mon Jul 22 2019
Wonder how to handle side effects in a very clean way while abstracting the real effect implementation? #Arrow #FX provides an easy way to do this, without the burden of Higher-Kinded Types.
Learn moreSelf-contained example of testing with modules and Arrow FX
Fri Jul 05 2019
This post shows a porting with Kotlin and Arrow FX of a self-contained testing example with Scala ZIO
Learn moreModular functional programming with Kotlin
Tue Jul 02 2019
This post proposes a possible solution in order to structure and compose a pure functional Kotlin application, in order to better manage and decouple modules, get simpler tests and manage the Dependency Injection at compile time.
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ArrowFx: Functional Programming for the masses
Fri Jun 07 2019
In this talk we recap about the imminent future of Functional Programming in Kotlin. With ArrowFx you are able to encode “effectful” programs in a controlled way following the FP principles through a direct syntax. You’ll think you’re writing imperative code!
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How KEEP-87 & Typeclasses will change the way we write Kotlin
Tue Jun 04 2019
Short introduction into the proposal KEEP-87 and how it would be able to improve the language.
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Introducing Arrow Playground
Thu Apr 11 2019
Arrow Playground is a JavaScript library that creates Kotlin-aware, including Arrow, editors capable of running code from HTML block elements. This is a fork of the original Kotlin Playground work done by the JetBrains team.
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