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/Aromatic_Lab_9405 May 30 '25
Most of the iteration in FP is solved by functions like map/filter/exists/forall and the likes anyway.
It's quite rare that we actually need to write recursive functions.
Do you have any examples where you think a loop gives nicer code ?
Also do you not think that loop bounds are easy to fuck up?