Building a Better Web
June 19–20, 2017: Training
June 20–22, 2017: Tutorials & Conference
San Jose, CA
Anjana Vakil

Anjana Vakil
Engineering Learning and Development Lead, Mapbox

Website | @AnjanaVakil

Anjana Vakil is Engineering Learning & Development Lead at Mapbox. Anjana suffers from a debilitating case of curiosity, which led her from philosophy to English teaching to computational linguistics to software development. Talk to her about functional programming, language design and implementation, and speech technology and ask her about Mozilla, Outreachy, and the Recurse Center. She can usually be found in San Francisco—that is, when she’s not traveling the world trying to share the joy of programming and make the tech community more diverse and accessible.

Sessions

3:35pm–4:15pm Wednesday, June 21, 2017
Future JS & Functional
Location: 210 BF
Secondary topics:  Functional Programming (Elm, ClojureScript, Erlang), JavaScript frameworks and libraries (Angular, React, Ember, Vue, etc.), JavaScript/ES6
Anjana Vakil (Mapbox)
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Functional programming—programming without side effects or mutability—has great advantages, especially for JavaScript developers, but never mutating data can lead to efficiency problems. Anjana Vakil explains how immutable data structures provide an elegant solution and explores two libraries that make it easy to use these remarkable data structures in your own JavaScript projects. Read more.