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Arrow Meta - Enabling Functional Programming in the Kotlin Compiler

Arrow Meta - Enabling Functional Programming in the Kotlin Compiler

over 6 years ago

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

Kotlin and Arrow: the functional way

over 6 years ago

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

Effect polymorphism with Arrow FX

over 6 years ago

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.

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Self-contained example of testing with modules and Arrow FX

Self-contained example of testing with modules and Arrow FX

over 6 years ago

This post shows a porting with Kotlin and Arrow FX of a self-contained testing example with Scala ZIO

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Modular functional programming with Kotlin

Modular functional programming with Kotlin

over 6 years ago

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

ArrowFx: Functional Programming for the masses

over 6 years ago

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

How KEEP-87 & Typeclasses will change the way we write Kotlin

almost 7 years ago

Short introduction into the proposal KEEP-87 and how it would be able to improve the language.

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Introducing Arrow Playground

Introducing Arrow Playground

almost 7 years ago

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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