ICFP 2020

ICFP 2020 is the 25th ACM SIGPLAN International Conference on Functional Programming. The conference was a virtual event during the dates of August 23-26, 2020 and all activities took place online.

The main program featured two keynotes, technical presentations for papers appearing in PACMPL Vol 4: Issue ICFP, as well as an awards session, and a special session of papers recently appearing in the Journal of Functional Programming.

The two invited speakers for 2020 were: Evan Czaplicki, covering the Elm programming language and hard lessons learned on driving adoption of new programming languages; and Audrey Tang, Haskeller and Taiwan’s Digital Minister, on how software developers can contribute to fighting the pandemic.

The videos from the keynotes and award sessions are available.

• Audrey Tang’s talk Referential Transparency for Pandemic Resilience, available on YouTube and iQIYI
• Evan Czaplicki’s talk On Language Adoption, available on YouTube and iQIYI
• ICFP Programming Contest presentation, SIGPLAN awards, SRC awards and PC Chair report, available on YouTube and iQIYI.

The ICFP technical program included 37 exciting papers, as well as presentations of 8 papers accepted recently to the Journal of Functional Programming. Recordings of these talks are also available on YouTube and Bilibi. Each session recording includes chapters for access to individual papers. Closed captioning is also available.

Co-located symposia and workshops took place the day before and two days immediately after the main conference. We also had ten exciting tutorials lined up during these days.

New this year: Over 360 attendees signed-up for the ICFP Mentoring Program (either to be a mentor, receive mentorship or both).

Keynotes

Referential transparency for pandemic resilience

Audrey Tang

On Language Adoption

Evan Czaplicki

Tutorials

Library-Oriented Dynamic Analysis with Lya

Nikos Vasilakis, Grigoris Ntousakis

Building Multi-Language Tools with Cubix

James Koppel

Teaching Functional Programming

Michael Sperber

Creating SVG graphics and Animations using Elm

Christopher Schankula, Sharon Wu, Larry Yao, Rutvi Patel, Christopher Anand

Audio, Video & Web Live Coding in Haskell

Manuel Bärenz

Integrating User-Centered Methods into Programming Language Design

Michael Coblenz, Jonathan Aldrich

Best Practices in Code Generation

Michal J. Gajda

Designing Hardware Systems and Accelerators with Open-Source Bluespec Haskell

Rishiyur Nikhil

Functional Software Architecture

Michael Sperber

Using the K Framework to Formalize Functional Languages

Xiaohong Chen, Grigore Roşu