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> And we're building horrific and error-prone rube-goldberg machines to bolt onto our functional programming languages instead. You literally make no sense to

by cies 2y ago

> And we're building horrific and error-prone rube-goldberg machines to bolt onto our functional programming languages instead. You literally make no sense to me. Are you sure we are talking about the same thing? I mean sure: writing JSON parsers takes time, but once written they are awesome.

otabdeveloper4 2y ago
> writing JSON parsers takes time The promise of pure functional programming was to never write a 'JSON parser' by hand ever again. (Among other things.) The paradigm failed because people in charge of Haskell and Elm and other similar languages failed at their job.