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Re:Ask HN: Why is functional programming not more popular? by girishso on Tuesday November 05, 2019 @09:34PM (#21459206)
When I said typed FP, I meant languages with ADTs.. Elm/Haskell etc., not Typescript! :)
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Re:Ask HN: Why is functional programming not more popular? by valand on Wednesday November 06, 2019 @01:37PM (#21465540)
I thought we were talking about FP paradigm, not the language, and the Typed data concept which includes compile time type validations, type inference.

And also I'm pretty sure TypeScript has union, intersections, tuples, record which are pretty much ADTs.

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Re:Ask HN: Why is functional programming not more popular? by girishso on Wednesday November 06, 2019 @08:07PM (#21469436)
You're right, my bad. I didn't know TypeScript had ADTs. Should probably take a serious look at TypeScript.
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