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I think this is at a tipping point and will be solved soon (for better or worse) because network effects. Technology at each layer consolidates once the next la
by dustingetz 9y ago
I think this is at a tipping point and will be solved soon (for better or worse) because network effects. Technology at each layer consolidates once the next layer is identified, which I think is functional programming everywhere and thus anticipate a consolidation is already underway.
- thorin 9y agoHmm, according to wikipedia lisp appeared 60 years ago, so it's had some chance to gain ground and functional is popular currently but everywhere, soon seems like a stretch
- dustingetz 9y agoNot sure if trolling. FP requires fast immutable data structures. Okasaki was published in 1998. Persistent data structures require amazing GC. JVM got good in 2000s. To do it in the database requires cloud scale compute and storage. AWS got good in 2010s. Datomic (functional paradigm postgres killer) got good in 2018.