Re:A statically typed scripting language that transpiles to ...
by staticassertion on Friday March 25, 2022 @05:27PM
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> (over and over again)
Eh. I'm not saying one way or the other that FP is good or bad, but the software industry is incredibly young and changes a lot. Even in a relatively short period - 10 years, let's say - things are pretty difference. 20 years, still a short time, and things are radically different.
And on top of that, it is still the case that a lot of stuff takes a long time to get adopted. It's hard to build and popularize a programming language, regardless of how good or bad that language is, because they tend to lack interoperability with other languages if they're very different, which is usually a requirement if they want to be considered worth looking at.
So I'd just as easily buy that people haven't used a lot of FP due to inertia, a lack of the right external inventives, etc, and not by any virtue of the paradigm.
Eh. I'm not saying one way or the other that FP is good or bad, but the software industry is incredibly young and changes a lot. Even in a relatively short period - 10 years, let's say - things are pretty difference. 20 years, still a short time, and things are radically different.
And on top of that, it is still the case that a lot of stuff takes a long time to get adopted. It's hard to build and popularize a programming language, regardless of how good or bad that language is, because they tend to lack interoperability with other languages if they're very different, which is usually a requirement if they want to be considered worth looking at.
So I'd just as easily buy that people haven't used a lot of FP due to inertia, a lack of the right external inventives, etc, and not by any virtue of the paradigm.