throwaway87537
Re:Why Isn't Functional Programming the Norm? [video]
on Thursday October 17, 2019 @08:43AM (#21281404)
Streeter here.
Although I don’t work directly with the FPGA stuff, it’s still a very, very small piece of the overall pie (and new).
The motivation behind using Ocaml is mainly in its correctness(!) not because it’s fast (it’s not). See Knight Capital for a good example as to why. There are great videos on YT by Yaron Minsky that explain this better than I can.