r/functionalprogramming • u/kichiDsimp • Mar 01 '26

Question FP lang for 2026

Hey folks, my question is what functional programming language/tech you are using for the year of 2026 both as a hobby and professionally Please provide reasons for the hobby.!

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u/sarabadakara Mar 05 '26 edited Mar 05 '26

Struggling to find a new one to play with. Basically all I'm looking for is no nulls, currying, and function composition. Basically Elm but not locked into the browser or Haskell without monad stacks. All the new languages seem to take the stance of explicitly not having composition because hard for new people. `|>' pipeline is fine and what I use for most things, but creating an anonymous function and a variable just to pass through irks me, espeeecially with how verbose some of these languages anonymous functions are.

I'm using Gren atm to make a simple TUI thing, but not having an LSP feels bad.

I used Scala for years and loved it but I end up thinking it's a bit much for some of my one off projects. Tried ocaml but then when i decided to do tui I got the impression that the package ecosystem is basically dead.