FUNARCH 2025 talk by Jeffrey Young (Epic Games) speculatively explores possible definitions for “Functional Architecture” given that Software Architecture itself lacks a clear definition.
Key Takeaways
Talk presented at FUNARCH 2025 workshop (Oct 12-18, 2025), co-located with ICFP, sponsored by ACM SIGPLAN and ACM SIGAda.
Jeffrey Young works at Epic Games, bringing an industry practitioner angle to an academic functional programming venue.
The talk is explicitly speculative, not a formal study or framework proposal, aiming to open discussion rather than settle definitions.
“Functional Architecture” sits at the intersection of two under-defined terms, making the question genuinely open for the FP and systems design communities.
