# From Scala to Roc with Monica McGuigan

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Podcast: [Software Unscripted](https://stenobird.com/podcast/software-unscripted-5320480)
Published: 2025-01-27T18:00:00+00:00
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## Resource

Monica McGuigan, a Scala programmer at JP Morgan, talks with Richard about her experiences learning Roc with a Scala background. They get into topics like how language design affects beginners and experts, what parts of functional programming are easier and harder to learn than others, and how language designers inform their design decisions. Support Software Unscripted on Patreon: https://patreon.com/SoftwareUnscripted Monica's chapter on JSON decoders: https://github.com/roc-lang/book-of-examples/pull/68 Grapheme clusters: https://unicode.org/glossary/#extended_grapheme_cluster Roc's string operations: https://www.roc-lang.org/builtins/Str Talk: The Functional Purity Inference Plan: https://youtu.be/42TUAKhzlRI?si=TwxYoqMgh0UXQLfn Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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