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Why Isn't Functional Programming the Norm? [video]

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BrissyCoder ◴[17 Oct 19 11:33 UTC] No.21280905[source]▶
People at the places I work keep memeing links to blog posts along the lines of "OOP is dead. Functional programming is the new king".

Yet to see a single line of a functional language in production.

As other commenters have mentioned most decent modern lanuages are multi-paradigm.

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1. mplanchard ◴[17 Oct 19 12:06 UTC] No.21281110[source]▶
There is lots of functional language code in production.

As a recent example GitHub uses this Haskell application for code analysis: https://github.com/github/semantic

Also, Erlang powers a huge amount of the US’ cellular infrastructure, as well as RabbitMQ, which is used in a ton of production workloads.

There’s actually a pretty decent list on Wikipedia: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Functional_programming