Re:Ask HN: Which tools have made you a much better programmer?
by Fellshard on Tuesday June 09, 2020 @05:18PM
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Had the same result, and had to settle for the middle ground of (lodash | underscore; I don't recall which now.)
There's a lot of resistance to adopting anything with the name functional, and that resistance is often seen in a /refusal/ to try to understand instead of a mere lack of understanding: people put up walls straightaway. I expect many need motivating examples to guide them to it.
Languages like Kotlin are pointing the way towards that middle ground far more effectively than, say, Scala did.
There's a lot of resistance to adopting anything with the name functional, and that resistance is often seen in a /refusal/ to try to understand instead of a mere lack of understanding: people put up walls straightaway. I expect many need motivating examples to guide them to it.
Languages like Kotlin are pointing the way towards that middle ground far more effectively than, say, Scala did.