What are functional languages, as a group, "absolutely awful" at?
Re:Elixir 1.5 released
by banachtarski on Monday July 31, 2017 @01:06AM
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Low level code. Drivers, interfacing on COM/serial/USB ports, graphics programming or anything that requires more finely tuned data structures you have to manage yourself, low latency work where you can't afford to have a random GC happen at a bad point in the run loop...
Lots of things.
I think practitioners of functional languages get a little preachy when really, exposure to functional languages should just be assumed to be part of the basic training of any engineer. It's a tool and as good as it is for some things, it's absolutely awful for others.