So many weasel words and strawmen in this article. > Recently, many are touting "nearly functional programming" and "limited side effects" as the perfect weapo

So many weasel words and strawmen in this article. > Recently, many are touting "nearly functional programming" and "limited side effects" as the perfect weapons against the new elephants in the room: concurrency and parallelism. Who is this "many", and when did they say it was "perfect". I think the premise is silly too. Even if you don't get the full benefit of functional programming without a hardcore functional language, you obviously get some. Limiting side effects is almost always a good thing.