Talk proposal: Functional reactive programming for layout and animation

[David Valdman]

<guten>

I'm coming to Berlin from the states to give a talk at jsConf EU about functional reactive programming (FRP) and JavaScript. I would love to be able to present at BerlinJS in September beforehand! And also to hang out with the JS community in Berlin (I'll be there from August 17th - September 28th).

The talk will be about how we should think of continuously changing data differently than discretely changing data (think scrolling vs clicking a button, or animation vs updating a view model's name field). I think in the continuously changing world, streams, piping, and lazy evaluation is a better paradigm than the MVC (getters, setters, state) tools we currently use. The talk will also include some philosophical rambling, as to me the difference between OOP and FRP is a difference between "I think therefore I am" (Descartes) and "to be is to be perceived" (Berkeley), and I strongly believe that is the way to teach FRP, and not to get lost in the technical jargon. But to find out more, you'll need to host me! :-P

About me: I used to be the "chief architect" (read: lead developer) at a company called Famo.us, (still!) best known for this http://periodic.famo.us. Before then I got a PhD in math. I'm going to Berlin so early to go to the Chaos Communication Camp, so any of you will be there let me know!

Dave

@dmvaldman (but only my mom and a few other people follow me )-:)

[Robin Mehner]

Hey there,

there won’t be a BerlinJS meeting in September, since there is Reject.JS (http://rejectjs.org) organized by us, sorry :) Make sure to check out the ever growing list on http://wwwtf.berlin to see some satellite events you could attend.

Greetings from Berlin,
- Robin

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[Tobias Reiss]

I've never seen <guten> before :D

[David Valdman]

Ah, thanks Robin! If anyone wants to grab coffee anyhow, get in touch!

</guten>

[Marcus Kleppe]

Hi David,

do you want to grab a coffee tomorrow? I'll be at a co-found event in the city, so we could meetup somewhere either before in the morning or afterwards.

Cheers,
Marcus