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Re:Functional programming is not popular because it is weird... by pharmakom on Tuesday September 14, 2021 @04:05AM (#28521695)
> And I have to agree: State management is a huge part of CRUD apps.

I see this point come up often, but it doesn’t really line up with my own experiences. I find the explicit state control in functional languages makes it much easier to write enterprise CRUD.

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Re:Functional programming is not popular because it is weird... by goto11 on Tuesday September 14, 2021 @12:38PM (#28527298)
CRUD is about state, but typically the mutable state is in the database, not the application layer.
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