> Functional programming is all about having confidence in our code. Perhaps, but if I understand this article correctly, I must first know and understand all

> Functional programming is all about having confidence in our code. Perhaps, but if I understand this article correctly, I must first know and understand all these laws and tools before I can have that confidence. Meanwhile, the arcane abstractions don't exactly inspire much of that confidence. Look, I love what someone else here has already dubbed "softcore FP". I love chaining functions that pass immutable data structures to each other. And I fully admit I've written some highly abstract code that looks quite a bit like some of this. But does it inspire confidence? Quite often the effect is that you've created your own language that others don't know, which means your code will be harder to understand for others, and they may lack confidence in the code, and not dare to maintain it properly. I want to believe that this direction is the right one, but I lack the confidence that it really is.