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Re:Functional Programming in hica by cladamski79 on Thursday July 02, 2026 @07:12AM (#48759580)
hica is a functional, expression-based programming language, everything is an expression and immutable by default. Its goal is to make programming very approachable for beginners (and veterans alike). You learn by doing small programs, then dive deeper on a thing you really want to build.

This is a guide on functional programming which covers immutability, higher-order functions, pipelines, and more, all with runnable examples.

If that is to theoretical there is https://www.hica.dev/docs/hica-for-beginners/ that walks through functions, pattern matching, and lists by building real programs.

Happy to answer questions about the design decisions, the implementation or how to get started.

Re:Functional Programming in hica by alfanick on Sunday July 05, 2026 @10:00AM (#48794374)
Any examples of bigger and practical projects written in hica?
Re:Functional Programming in hica by cladamski79 on Sunday July 05, 2026 @01:14PM (#48795923)
I recently posted about tbdflow-ui at https://cladam.github.io/2026/06/30/tbdflow-ui/

There is also the HML spec and a library at https://github.com/cladam/hml

Re:Functional Programming in hica by smw on Sunday July 05, 2026 @12:24PM (#48795482)
Any concurrency / parallelism?