> I think purity isn't too confusing here, and it's not really a Haskell concept being used, it's general purpose. It's just that the answer given by the post i

> I think purity isn't too confusing here, and it's not really a Haskell concept being used, it's general purpose. It's just that the answer given by the post is correct; it's essentially impossible to write pure Javascript code. I completely agree, especially when comparing languages. But if we're focusing on a particular language, like JS, then it's not particularly useful to make distinctions like "pure"/"impure" which essentially lump everything into one category. Once we've said "it's all impure", there's not really anything else to say, unless we make new distinctions like the ones I made above.