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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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dzonga ◴[18 Oct 19 00:20 UTC] No.21287578[source]▶
as someone who made my first SPA, using Elm & met the presenter once in NY. functional programming is elegant and nice. but practicality is another different matter. for it, to be the norm, it has to have 10x advantages over the status quo. on the frontend, part JS already offers some features of functional programming, with some imperative parts. On the backend, none of the functional languages you would want to use such as Ocaml match say the ecosystems of Python, Java, Node.js & .Net world.Hell even F# which is an excellent language, is treated like the bastard step son of Microsoft
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1. ummonk ◴[18 Oct 19 00:27 UTC] No.21287604[source]▶
I mean, on the backend functional programming usually really shines, since you're can implement your APIs using FP without needing to have any state (the FP will just be translating http requests into calls to stateful storage).

E.g. at Facebook, the PHP code I write is usually highly functional.