The Functional Programming (FP) Launchpad at IIT Madras aims to build research and educational capacity for crafting efficient, reliable and trustworthy software with mathematical guardrails. As AI coding agents make software increasingly accessible and enable its production at unprecedented scale, they also introduce far-reaching consequences for civic society. In this context, the centre is founded on the belief that discovering future software engineering best practices requires sustained feedback loops between research and real-world systems, as well as educational structures that cultivate a new generation of maintainers for foundational software.

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