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Is the functional paradigm still considered something most people still haven't learned in 2021?

• masklinn 5y ago
  Yes? Most people might have experience with functional-ish features like HoFs and lambdas in imperative langages but Elixir, through Erlang, is much more of the package: immutable structures and bindings, expressions-oriented, patterns, limited support for iteration. It’s not pure or anything, but it’s closer to OCaml than it is C# or Javascript. “I’ve used Array#map” doesn’t mean you know functional programming.
• princevegeta89 5y ago
  Yes sir. People would have fun doing .entryList() or map.each do {} end which seems trivial but however with something as functional as Elixir, we can only achieve this with the Enum module for example. There is no iteration but only a bunch of methods from which to choose based on your requirement