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> As software becomes more and more complex, it is more and more important to structure it well. Well-structured software is easy to write and to debug, and pro
by baby 2y ago
> As software becomes more and more complex, it is more and more important to structure it well. Well-structured software is easy to write and to debug, and provides a collection of modules that can be reused to reduce future programming costs. In this paper we show that two features of functional languages in particular ...
My problem with this side of the force, is that it's all about the theory and the expressivity, which matters of course, but very little about tooling, readability of the code, etc. This sometimes gives birth to functional languages that are very interesting but not really usable from an engineering perspective.
To me, it would be interesting to see a modern functional language that would follow Rust's way. Great all-in-one product (tooling, build system, package manager, formatter, static analyzer) with great doc, and language decisions that make organizing codebases a pleasure (via convention over configuration, for example)
- Hasnep 2y agoI think Roc (https://www.roc-lang.org https://www.roc-lang.org) is trying to be that kind of practical, less theoretical FP language. It's strictly evaluated, doesn't have currying, you can learn it without ever hearing the word monad. It's still very young, so the tooling isn't there yet, but it already has a formatter and linter built into the compiler.
- baby 2y agooh this is amazing, I do think exposing currying to the developer is a big mistake (along with the lack of explicit types)