Functional Geekery Episode 124 – Sam Guyer and Caleb Helbling 626v2z

In this episode I talk with Sam Guyer and Caleb Helbling. We talk about Juniper, a functional reactive programming language for Arduino programming. Our Guests, Sam Guyer and Caleb Helbling Sam Guyer http://www.calebh.io/ @CalebHelbling on Twitter Conference Announcements Monadic Party, a 5 day Haskell Summer School, will be taking place in Pozna?, Poland the 11th-15th of June. Visit https://monadic.party/ for more information and to . The 2018 Racket Summer School will run July 9th – 13th at the University of Utah, in Salt Lake City, Utah. For more information, and to apply visit https://summer-school.racket-lang.org/2018/. BusConf will take place for the second time from August 2nd to August 4th in , close to Frankfurt. For more information and to visit: http://www.bus-conf.org/. Compose::Melbourne will be taking place Monday August 27th. Visit http://www.composeconference.org/ to keep updated as more details are announced. International Conference on Functional Programming 2018 will be taking place September 23 – 29th in St. Louis, MO. For more information, and to visit: https://icfp18.sigplan.org/ StrangeLoop 2018 will be taking place September 27th and 28th, with a pre-conference day on the 26th in St. Louis, MO. To keep updated as details become announced you can find out more at: https://www.thestrangeloop.com/ (eighth RacketCon) will take place September 27th and 28th in St. Louis, Missouri, along side ICFP and Strange Loop. For more information, and to visit https://con.racket-lang.org/. The Big Elixir Conference will be on November 8th and 9th in New Orleans. Visit https://www.thebigelixir.com for more information and to . If you have a conference related to functional programming, me, and I will be happy to announce it. Announcements Some of you have asked how you can Functional Geekery, in that vein, Functional Geekery now has a Patreon Page. If that is one of the ways you would like to show your , you can find out more at https://www.patreon.com/fngeekery. Topics [@5:12] About Sam and Caleb Tufts University Juniper Arduino How Sam and Caleb got into working with Arduinos Juniper Paper Addressable RGB LED strips “There’s smoking coming out if it. Now it’s garbage.” Pain of programming on an Arduino for those not familiar with C++ FastLED library Concurrency and discrete event simulator Signals Going from feeling the pain to creating Juniper Representing a Signal Graph Elm Architecture Maybe Types to represent Signal values Reactive Programming model Data Flow Model Functional Reactive Programming Using polling based model under the covers Signal Graph as a mental model Importance of Higher Order Functions on Signals Writing Signal generation functions in C++ Ability to have multiple Signals propagating at the same time Debouncing button press Where Juniper fits today with an interrupt model Writing Juniper in F# Haskell OCaml Standard ML fparsec Workflow from writing code to loading on an Arduino C++ Templates Debugging hardware vs software Where Juniper is today Problem with closures in embedded software with limited memory How to get started with Juniper Juniper Google Group Blockspell FastLED Google+ As always, a giant Thank You goes to David Belcher for the logo design. 4p493y