Functional programming is not popular because it is weird (2016)

Re:Functional programming is not popular because it is weird... by dragonsh on Tuesday September 14, 2021 @04:10AM (#28521729)

Just a minor nitpick Rust still has miles to go before it catches with Python or Go or Java, so not yet in the same league. Most of the rust crates today depends on C, so it’s not going to replace C in next 2 decades, but will still depend on C.

Hopefully it will start replacing C going forward but in that space Rust is competing with Zig and Nim.

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Re:Functional programming is not popular because it is weird... by krageon on Tuesday September 14, 2021 @04:18AM (#28521771)

> Zig and Nim

Two languages almost nobody uses. It doesn't seem likely it's actually competing with them in that case.

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Re:Functional programming is not popular because it is weird... by another_story on Tuesday September 14, 2021 @04:37AM (#28521913)

You hardly hear about Zig or Nim. Are they actually being used in production?

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Re:Functional programming is not popular because it is weird... by cb321 on Wednesday September 15, 2021 @03:32PM (#28543356)

I do not know about Zig, but Nim is used in production at multiple companies - biotech, cryptocurrencies, finance, had an attempted commercial video game app, etc., etc. See here [1] for example.

[1] https://github.com/nim-lang/Nim/wiki/Organizations-using-Nim

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Re:Functional programming is not popular because it is weird... by Zababa on Tuesday September 14, 2021 @09:47AM (#28524729)

Rust isn't competing with Zig and Nim just like C isn't competing with Rust.

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