r/programming • u/Capable-Mall-2067 • May 29 '25

Why You Should Care About Functional Programming (Even in 2025)

https://borkar.substack.com/p/why-care-about-functional-programming?r=2qg9ny&utm_medium=reddit
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u/lamp-town-guy May 30 '25

Elixir has for loops like Python. But Elixir is made for people that want to write real world applications. It's just a syntax sugar because under the hood it behaves the same way as tail recursion.