Book · 2014 · Computers
Functional Programming in Scala
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And then on the technical side, I would strongly recommend functional programming in Scala. Even if language choice just doesn't matter as much anymore, I think there is this arts to functional programming that just teaches you how to code better.
Why people recommend it
Functional Programming in Scala by Paul Chiusano and Runar Bjarnason is a technical guide that teaches functional programming principles and encourages readers to think deeply in types. Boris Cherny strongly recommended this title across multiple podcast appearances. On The Pragmatic Engineer during the episode Building Claude Code with Boris Cherny, Cherny advised technical readers to pick up the book, noting that even if specific language choices do not matter as much anymore, the art of functional programming teaches individuals how to code better and think critically about their programs. He reiterated this praise on The Peterman Pod during the episode Boris Cherny (Creator of Claude Code) On How His Career Grew, identifying it as the single technical book that had the greatest impact on his engineering career. Cherny explained that even if developers might not use Scala directly in their daily work, the foundational way the book teaches people to approach and solve complex coding problems is immensely valuable. He consistently urged engineers to work through its exercises to fundamentally improve their technical reasoning and software design capabilities.
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Boris Cherny And then on the technical side, I would strongly recommend functional programming in Scala. Even if languag… 2
“And then on the technical side, I would strongly recommend functional programming in Scala. Even if language choice just doesn't matter as much anymore, I think there is this arts to functional programming that just teaches you how to code better.”
“this is still like the one technical book I would recommend to everyone that has had the greatest impact on me as an engineer is this book called functional programming in Scola and you're probably never going to use schol today, but the way it teaches you to think about coding problems is just such a change”