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Re:Did Functional Programming Get It Wrong (Part 2) – Minecr... by throwaway894323 on Saturday July 02, 2022 @08:15AM (#31958396)
We are going to continue to see NullPointerException and nil panic's as people continue to use languages like Go and Java with conservative type systems.

My point is people don't care about these issues and just want to ship code.

At least Go is kind of enough to add good error messages.

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Re:Did Functional Programming Get It Wrong (Part 2) – Minecr... by reinman on Saturday July 02, 2022 @08:17AM (#31958411)
yes - the industry is so scattered that FP tends to attract a niche solving very specific problems such as program verification

And those concerned with speed on hardware are probably not the ones who want the flexibility and interactivity of high level languages

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