IMO the ELM architecture only works with pure functions. It doesn't work with languages which cannot provide this compile time guarantee. Also functional programming needs a different mindset / training. You won't benefit from it until you understand what it actually brings to the table (and what it leaves out).
Re:In Praise Of –Dry-Run
by awesome_dude on Wednesday February 04, 2026 @02:39PM
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I have to ask - I like some of the paradigms of Functional programming (IMO it makes concurrent programming a lot easier because state is never shared)
Why hasn't it cut through, like OO did?
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Beam has been around since the 90s, had a good marquee project (RabbitMQ) but still has low adoption
I am not sure I if I can speak to that in general but personally I discovered functional programming late. Object oriented programming was all the rage when I got initiated and that is all that was taught in colleges.
Did not like, Won't use again.
MVC is well understood and works perfectly in my experience.
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Even though you were tongue in cheek about F# - this stood out on the page
> The functional programming community has design patterns and principles as well.