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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: 0.375s | source
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bpyne ◴[17 Oct 19 14:16 UTC] No.21282275[source]▶
I think we need to get past the point of believing in some FP revolution in which enlightenment happens and people suddenly switch to Haskell, OCaml, Clojure, etc. FP is happening in a more evolutionary way with newer languages like Kotlin, Scala, F#, etc. taking ideas from Haskell, SML, and Lisp.

I'm not pretending to be the first to state this observation but I feel like it needs reinforcement here.

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1. overgard ◴[17 Oct 19 14:42 UTC] No.21282554[source]▶
I think most of the growth of FP is coming from libraries and hybrid languages. Things like React and Redux and streams/linq style operations on data structures, or default immutability. I don’t think “pure” languages will ever really become dominant but a lot of the best ideas are being borrowed.