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side effects are not necessarily a bad thing. unintentional side effects are. with some exceptions, such as UI frameworks, I find it harder to unintentionally c

by bpavuk 10mo ago

side effects are not necessarily a bad thing. unintentional side effects are. with some exceptions, such as UI frameworks, I find it harder to unintentionally create a side effect. also, UI is basically one huge side effect. Kotlin and Rust are just a lot more practical than, say, Clojure or Haskell, but they both take lessons from those languages.

mrkeen 10mo ago
> side effects are not necessarily a bad thing. unintentional side effects are Right. Just like Strings aren't inherently bad. But languages where you can't tell whether data is a String or not are bad. No language forbids effects, but some languages track effects.