The Functional Final Frontier • David Nolen • GOTO 2014

This presentation was recorded at GOTO Chicago 2014 http://gotochgo.com David Nolen - Software Engineer at Cognitect ABSTRACT The Model-View-Controller (MVC) approach to user interfaces was first proposed by Trygve Reenskaug in a 1979 Xerox PARC note. As Object Oriented methodologies gained popularity, MVC too gained traction as a natural and logical way to construct user interfaces despite obvious short comings. Even though OO researchers moved forward with alternative approaches likes Morphic and constraint based systems, MVC today maintains a strangehold on developer approaches to UI. Can functional programming take the good lessons from MVC while advancing the state of the art? Functional Reactive Programming and its derivates primarily solve complexities around events - what of component modularity and abstraction? We'll examine how a new library for ClojureScript called Om, a simple functional layer over Facebook's React, makes some traditional hard problems in MVC based UIs simple without abandoning the abstractions OO programmers find useful. These concepts are easily portable to other systems provided the presence of persistent data structures. Download slides and read the full abstract here: https://gotocon.com/chicago-2014/presentation/The%20Functional%20Final%20Frontier https://twitter.com/gotochgo https://www.facebook.com/GOTOConference http://gotocon.com #MVC #ModelViewController #FunctionalProgramming #FP #ClojureScript #Om Looking for a unique learning experience? Attend the next GOTO conference near you! Get your ticket at https://gotopia.tech Sign up for updates and specials at https://gotopia.tech/newsletter