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ZIO (particularly with the V2 release just done) explicitly aims to be beginner friendly and accessible compared to other "pure" FP and effects libraries though
by gavinray 5y ago
ZIO (particularly with the V2 release just done) explicitly aims to be beginner friendly and accessible compared to other "pure" FP and effects libraries though
This isn't my experience trying to read documentation and tutorials with similar libraries in both Scala and Haskell
I would go so far as to say that ZIO is like the Python of the realm. It's practically oriented and beginner friendly first and foremost. Also Scala is easier to understand than Haskell, but that's an opinion.
- thinkharderdev 5y agoAgreed, I think it's not so much that pure FP is too abstract and complicated. It can actually allow really clean, usable abstractions. It's just that many pure FP libraries for some reason try to explicitly model category theoretic abstractions so you end up needing a lot of theory to be able to get your bearings. ZIO is built on the same theoretical foundations but is designed so that you don't need the theory to be productive. That's all just to say that the issue isn't FP in general, but the way FP has been implemented in beginner-unfriendly ways.