I almost think the Swift/Rust approach is the right one for 99% of practical cases. In these languages I end up writing a lot of functional code, but it's impo

I almost think the Swift/Rust approach is the right one for 99% of practical cases. In these languages I end up writing a lot of functional code, but it's important to have an escape hatch to just make the computer do what I tell it when I need to. Especially when using libraries which are not themselves functional.