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

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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