Still writing bespoke functions and boilerplate to immutably manipulate a complex data structures? Statically typed optics will both do the heavy lifting for you, AND give your TypeScript hustle an unforeseen boost.

Guest

Petri Lehtinen started programming with Basic in the mid-90s. Open source projects and functional programming in typed programming languages are close to his heart.

Host

Esko Lahti is an engineer who saw the light after first encountering the partial.lenses optics library in 2017. 

Episode links

• optics-ts: https://github.com/akheron/optics-ts
• Monocle: https://www.optics.dev/Monocle
• Monocle-ts: https://github.com/gcanti/monocle-ts
• partial.lenses: https://github.com/calmm-js/partial.lenses
• calmm.js: https://github.com/calmm-js
• Profunctor optics: http://www.cs.ox.ac.uk/people/jeremy.gibbons/publications/poptics.pdf
• A comprehensive study about different optic types: http://oleg.fi/gists/posts/2017-04-18-glassery.html

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