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> Take Kotlin, for example. It has so many escape hatches that someone new to functional programming can end-up writing what is essentially an OOP/imperative st
by pie_flavor 4y ago
> Take Kotlin, for example. It has so many escape hatches that someone new to functional programming can end-up writing what is essentially an OOP/imperative style Java program, merely in Kotlin syntax.
That's... literally the entire purpose of Kotlin.
- rkangel 4y agoIt is, and the author isn't criticising the language as a whole for it. They're merely commenting that it isn't a good options for forcing you to use and therefore learn functional paradigms.