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Re:Functional programming is not popular because it is weird... by GuuD on Tuesday September 14, 2021 @08:21AM (#28523600)
Oh man. Are you me? Thanks for that comment.

For me functional programming was just like a “missing link”. Wait, I can just code like I think, not in this weird statefull way? It’s just so practical for me. I can deliver 10x the value for 0.1 the effort. It’s just not fair, I know for a fact that there are more people with the same model of thinking, I just want them to feel as liberated

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Re:Functional programming is not popular because it is weird... by TacticalCoder on Tuesday September 14, 2021 @09:14AM (#28524256)
Amen!

Same as you and GP.

I'd add that, for me, "functional programming at the edges" is sufficient: I don't need to go full straight jacket / Haskell-style to get a huge lot of the benefits of FP. I can still use an imperative outer shell and still have lots of functional parts in my code which are easy to reason about.

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Re:Functional programming is not popular because it is weird... by cutemonster on Tuesday September 14, 2021 @03:49PM (#28530091)
What language do you use? (that gives that nice blend)
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Re:Functional programming is not popular because it is weird... by schwartzworld on Wednesday September 15, 2021 @07:24PM (#28545771)
JavaScript!
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Re:Functional programming is not popular because it is weird... by cutemonster on Friday September 17, 2021 @04:07PM (#28570327)
Ok :-) me too (typescript)
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