Also does anyone remember the time when functional programming was supposed to become standard everywhere by now? I heard about Rust that way first (they didn’t even advertise the memory safety that much back then), and even remembered people begging the D Language foundation for “const by default” and adding mutable as a keyword alongside the slow deprecation of const.
Yeah, the hype has died a little now, but over the past decade or so there was definitely a surge. Functional paradigms are definitely useful, but like a lot of things you can take it too far. I think one of my favorite criticisms was that the real world is mutable and has state so most programming languages will have to have that everywhere.
You can get a lot of the good from functional programming in non functional languages just by using immutable data types and pure functions.
Also does anyone remember the time when functional programming was supposed to become standard everywhere by now? I heard about Rust that way first (they didn’t even advertise the memory safety that much back then), and even remembered people begging the D Language foundation for “const by default” and adding
mutableas a keyword alongside the slow deprecation ofconst.Yeah, the hype has died a little now, but over the past decade or so there was definitely a surge. Functional paradigms are definitely useful, but like a lot of things you can take it too far. I think one of my favorite criticisms was that the real world is mutable and has state so most programming languages will have to have that everywhere.
You can get a lot of the good from functional programming in non functional languages just by using immutable data types and pure functions.
I often doing that, I just think dogmatic software development is not good.