> I have periodic crises of conscience where I wonder if I've been doing programming wrong all these years, or if it's an example of a community barking up the

> I have periodic crises of conscience where I wonder if I've been doing programming wrong all these years, or if it's an example of a community barking up the wrong tree. When I first learned of FP about 20 years ago I thought it was a terrible idea. But I've convinced myself I have been proven wrong time and time again. I still think sometime it's complexity for its own sake. Eg. why is it so hard to define a monad? But I enjoyed parts of Scala 2 and later Rust. There are good ideas in FP that lead to programs that are easier to reason about and manage complexity. Languages are borrowing these good ideas and I'm happier for it, algebraic data types, pattern matching and destructuring, result/either, immutability, etc