BFPG Meetup - February 2025 - Parser combinators + Mentor networking session
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Agenda
18:00: Welcome and setup
Presentation #1: Live coding a JSON parser - Fraser Tweedale
Presentation #2: Mentor networking session - hosted by Jack Kelly
20:00ish: Pack down, head to Criterion pub.
**Note:** talk change due to illness. The explicit substitutions topic will be rescheduled.
Live-coding a JSON parser
Parser combinators let you assemble complex parsers out of simple ones. Fraser will live-code a parser combinator library from the bottom up in Haskell, building up to a parser for (a subset of) JSON.
Note: the code developed during this session is available at https://gist.github.com/frasertweedale/69f197b6c2528456caf854e25cf1e844.
Mentor networking session
Have you decided that 2025 is the year you learn FP? Do you have a project in mind, but you don't know where to start? Do you have skills to share and a bit of free time?
We're inviting people to briefly talk about things they want to share and want to learn about in the FP world: languages, tools, techniques, libraries, projects. We want to help mentors and mentees find each other and hopefully kick off some new conversations at the pub.