I don't think so. If anything I feel it's a bit easier as you don't need to reason about object state. It's also different, which is the main hurdle. If you use

I don't think so. If anything I feel it's a bit easier as you don't need to reason about object state. It's also different, which is the main hurdle. If you use emacs you've already been exposed - Emacs Lisp is functional. If you're coming from a Web background both Elm and Elixir are great places to begin. You'll often hear stuff like "Javascript can be written in a functional style" - which is true, functional programming is a paradigm you can just go with - but seeing it really embraced by the language is really inspiring.