It's cute how people thing that functional will fix everything. In what way does functional make state explicit? If I look at a structure (if you have one in y

It's cute how people thing that functional will fix everything. In what way does functional make state explicit? If I look at a structure (if you have one in your language) and ask who changes this part of it across a large code base - it's much worse when you've just got a bunch of functions (with bad names) which can be hiding anywhere. And the "reasoned about" shibboleth. What "reasoning" do you actually do. Don't get me wrong - I have a long history in Lisp and ML and they're good languages in which good people can write good software. But no magic bullets. In another part of the development world I've seen React programmers jumping on the functional bandwagon and deciding that all components have to be stateless. Taking the state outside the components means that we have lots of bugs with mistaken state sharing. So external state doesn't equal well-managed.