Who This Book Is For

Each adoption story has many actors, and many of them have broadly different roles and responsibilities. Our book cuts across all adoption stories.

Such a book will have many different types of readers, and no single reader will find everything covered here relevant to them. Team leads and technical managers will want to know how to recruit and train, but pure programmers will probably find such details distracting. Beginners from traditional languages like Java or Ruby will crave more information on making the transition to a more functional, concurrent language.

We decided to write this book anyway, because the information is important right now for the greater community. We hope you’ll agree.

Still, this book is not for ...

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