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

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296 points gyre007 | 1 comments | 17 Oct 19 10:10 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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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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fheld ◴[17 Oct 19 11:38 UTC] No.21280928[source]▶
might be interesting for you, Lips in production:

https://tech.grammarly.com/blog/running-lisp-in-production

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juki ◴[17 Oct 19 12:37 UTC] No.21281359[source]▶
Notice that they are using Common Lisp, which is a multi-paradigm language, rather than a more functional lisp like Clojure.
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1. TurboHaskal ◴[17 Oct 19 13:14 UTC] No.21281654[source]▶
They also use Clojure at Grammarly AFAIK.