I’ve received a surprising invitation to give a talk in Budapest this July.

The main surprise was not the invite itself - I got it Zoltán whom I met at C++ Russia. It was in the fact that this it was not for a C++ event, but for a functional programming one - the Central European Functional Programming summer school.

I have to say I got intrigued, and started thinking about the topic for my lecture. At first, it felt strange to send anything mentioning C++, but then I saw that Zoltán’s lecture will be about immutable programming in C++, and that a few other familiar C++ guys have been invited as well.

In the end, I decided to talk about functional reactive proramming in C++ which will be a thrilling and enticing tale of event-based systems and the power of reactive streams. I’ll also cover some fun new things we are to expect from C++17 that are bringing even more functional programming concepts than we have in the current standard

If you look at the current schedule, you’ll see that Zoltán’s and mine are not the only planned C++ talks. Rainer Grimm (another really swell guy I met in Moscow) will talk about the functional capabilities of modern C++, and how they fare against Haskell.

Curently, three out of ten talks are dedicated to C++, one to Erlang (yay!), one to SaC (a single assignment variant of C), and one to F#. Other lectures seem to be lanuage agnostic, based on the currently available abstracts.

From the above, we can deduce that C++ is currently the most popular and most promissing functional programming language. Right? :)