Once you get over the initial learning curve of the functional/pure approach to state/IO, its far superior to imperative imo. You don't need to reason about glo

Once you get over the initial learning curve of the functional/pure approach to state/IO, its far superior to imperative imo. You don't need to reason about global state - because everything is explicit, including passing around your state, you never have to worry about "what if someone else or some other code somewhere is touching this" again.