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Undoubtedly, JavaScript triggered the functional hype, not Haskell or Clojure.
by ExpiredLink 11y ago
Undoubtedly, JavaScript triggered the functional hype, not Haskell or Clojure.
- rubiquity 11y agoI would say it's a joint mindshare from all the various functional families (Lisp, ML, Erlang). After all, what kind of programmers do you think wrote the functional libraries that led to the "functional hype" in JS in the first place?
- ExpiredLink 11y agoJavaScript's functional hype was initiated by Douglas Crockford.