Instead of talking about declarative programming we should talk about denotational programming - writing programs that map to a consistent mental model. The fa

Instead of talking about declarative programming we should talk about denotational programming - writing programs that map to a consistent mental model. The fact that something is declarative doesn't mean that it's understandable. Webpack for instance is a piece of technology I consistently struggle to understand and predict the behaviour of, even though it's declarative. (Not intended to shit on webpack's developers / maintainers in anyway.)