Fluture VS trustfall

My name is Aldwin. I'm back-end-leaning full-stack (web-) developer with over 13 years of full time professional experience at various software development agencies. Besides that, I have years of hobby-programming and open-source experience, with Fluture[1] being my most well-received.

I've been leading small teams for the last eight years, focusing on developer enabling work such as process management, devops, software architecture, and coaching.

I'm very passionately in particular about functional programming, and I'm hoping to coach teams when it comes to the cross-over between functional programming and software architecture - something a lot of developers who are new to FP struggle with.

Although I have been involved in a huge variety of software types, I'm particularly well-experienced when it comes to real-time, offline-first web-applications and real-time data processing.

[1]: https://github.com/fluture-js/Fluture

I think that it is fine to code perfectly functional apps using TypeScript with React Native and React. You will have a huge community to support you with documentation, libraries, and available labor. Yes, the language has a lot of soundness holes and misses a lot of useful features like pattern matching or type classes but, for me, it is a valid trade-off. There are libraries for better FP programming in TypeScript like fp-ts, io-ts, and fluture.

Fortunately, as it has been shown in this article, it’s definitely possible to use functional programming with plain JavaScript. However, if you really want to dive deeper into this paradigm while using JavaScript, you’ll probably want to use some already existing functional libraries such as Sanctuary, Fluture, Ramda and others.

This is great news for functionally-minded libraries such as Ramda, Sanctuary, Fluture, and many more. But it also makes some vanilla JavaScript nicer, for example:

Pleasantly surprised to see Predrag show up as a reviewer, but at the same time not at all surprised:

- The [Firebase technical screen](https://startupandrew.com/posts/how-firebase-interviewed-sof...) would have been much easier with something like this, as it was Just Another Optimization Problem™. Part of me wants to try it again with Picat!

- He's doing other very interesting things with programming languages, e.g.: https://github.com/obi1kenobi/trustfall

Email: [email protected]

Hi, I'm u9g. I'm looking for an internship for either this winter (in a few weeks) or a summer internship!

Some things I've done:

I integrated a [query engine for lints](https://github.com/obi1kenobi/trustfall) (and contributed optimizations) into [OXC](https://github.com/oxc-project/oxc) (a new Rust-based Javascript Linter).

I wrote [several](https://github.com/u9g/money-lens) [toy](https://github.com/u9g/quickquestion/tree/main/extension) languages and syntax highlighting for them.

I also wrote a [js-to-scheme transpiler](https://github.com/u9g/js2scheme/blob/main/example.js).

Happy to work on things compiler or database oriented, but also happy to learn something new!

If you'd like to dig deeper, here are some links:

- cargo-semver-checks: https://github.com/obi1kenobi/cargo-semver-checks

- Trustfall query engine, which powers cargo-semver-checks: https://github.com/obi1kenobi/trustfall

- Trustfall playground, where you can query Rust library APIs in your browser -- for example, "which structs in `itertools` are importable by more than one path": https://play.predr.ag/rustdoc#?f=2&q=*3-Structs-importable-f...

- 10min conference talk on Trustfall: https://www.hytradboi.com/2022/how-to-query-almost-everythin...

I'm also giving a talk at P99 CONF in a few months about how Trustfall's new optimizations API made cargo-semver-checks over 2300x faster: https://twitter.com/PredragGruevski/status/16893002495908003...

No worries!

Trustfall is even more general than semver actually, one can use it to query any data source -- even HN itself:

https://play.predr.ag/HackerNews

Here's a link to that project if you'd like to check it out:

https://github.com/obi1kenobi/trustfall

I gave a 10min conference talk on it last year titled "How to query (almost) everything"

https://www.hytradboi.com/2022/how-to-query-almost-everythin...

I've had my eye on Taxi for a while, and it's neat! I agree that the problems it aims to solve are real and painful in real life.

In my experience, I'm not sure people care about schemas or schema languages — they are just implementation details best left under the hood. This is why in my own work, I started on the query end of the spectrum instead.

This is why I built Trustfall, a query engine able to query any data source: DBs, APIs, files like PDF, CSV, or JSON, or any combination of those.

GitHub: https://github.com/obi1kenobi/trustfall

Playground showing the query "which GitHub/Twitter users comment on HackerNews stories about OpenAI?": https://play.predr.ag/hackernews#?f=1&q=IyBDcm9zcyBBUEkgcXVl...

Here's an example adapter for querying RSS/Atom feeds. Here's an example adapter for querying the HackerNews APIs. Both projects also include a schema and example queries which you can run.