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imho the whole thing about FP it's not about a objectively superior way of coding, but a way of coding that's better suited to the current high level, highly di
by leidenfrost 4y ago
imho the whole thing about FP it's not about a objectively superior way of coding, but a way of coding that's better suited to the current high level, highly distributed world.
There are A LOT of developers, a lot of custom made software and a lot of web applications. And unless you really need performance, most web services are an ideal use case for FP practices. Even if you do it in plain Javascript.
Some people are zealots about it, yes. But imho FP is a better way to trickle down those concepts instead of telling people to spend decades to become imperative code masters.
- SkyMarshal 4y ago> current high level, highly distributed world That's one area it's well-suited for. Also in error-handling and prevention, and in refactoring, and configuration management. All personal pain points for me previously.
- mpweiher 4y ago> imho the whole thing about FP it's not about a objectively superior way of coding, OK. > a way of coding that's better suited to the current high level, highly distributed world. But is it objectively better suited? One might even say "superior"? ;-) Also, I actually believe FP is actually quite ill-suited to the high-level and particularly the highly distributed world.