Re:Can Programming Be Liberated from the von Neumann Style? ...
by lmm on Monday December 19, 2016 @10:12AM
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I think FP is on the up and up. OCaml and Haskell have seen a lot more interest in the last 5-10 years (despite both being 20+ years old), and I've been working in Scala full time for 6+ years now.
There are still gaps and room for improvement to be sure, but I think progress is happening. Idris takes the best parts of Haskell and drops the laziness that was so problematic for performance. At the other end Rust is practically an ML-family language that offers low-level non-GC style. I don't think it's human nature that's kept less-functional languages popular so much as hardware limitations and business effects.
There are still gaps and room for improvement to be sure, but I think progress is happening. Idris takes the best parts of Haskell and drops the laziness that was so problematic for performance. At the other end Rust is practically an ML-family language that offers low-level non-GC style. I don't think it's human nature that's kept less-functional languages popular so much as hardware limitations and business effects.