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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: 0.206s | source
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onion2k ◴[17 Oct 19 10:39 UTC] No.21280617[source]▶
JavaScript isn't a functional language itself, but you can use a functional library like lodash/fp (https://github.com/lodash/lodash/wiki/FP-Guide) on top of it to get all that lovely functional goodness in your frontend and node code. Using lodash/fp has made my frontend state management code a lot nicer, and I'm really only just starting out with it.
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Borkdude ◴[17 Oct 19 10:44 UTC] No.21280640[source]▶
The video explains how JavaScript started out as a Scheme-dialect (Lisp) but for marketing reasons they chose a more Java-like syntax and adopted Java into the name.
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1. catalogia ◴[17 Oct 19 19:10 UTC] No.21285383[source]▶
Javascript falls short of scheme in ways more substantial than java-like vs s-expression syntax. It also has one of the worst numerical towers ever put into a language (that being: "lmao everything is a float".) Also, "function-scope" is an abomination compared to proper lexical scoping.

Edit: I forgot to also mention: weak typing was an awful idea.