I got into functional programming by programming in Scala.. this allowed me to begin to decompose problems that I would have normally used a bunch of hacky lo

I got into functional programming by programming in Scala.. this allowed me to begin to decompose problems that I would have normally used a bunch of hacky loops using the type system and transformations like flatmap, fold, map, etc. This really becomes useful when dealing with async compositions.. which Scala has excellent support for. I'm not an 'expert' at Scala (or anything for that matter), but this also helped me greatly when moving into Rust (which also has excellent functional capabilities and is similar to Scala in that way, IMO).