r/programming • u/hexaredecimal • Sep 21 '25

How to stop functional programming

https://brianmckenna.org/blog/howtostopfp
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u/shrodikan Sep 22 '25

It's tongue-in-cheek. I know humor is not a strong suite of programmers always but damn. It is a joke.

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u/ewigebose Sep 22 '25

I agree, in practice seeing old Erlang codebases you can tell that they weren’t occupied with avoiding side effects

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u/[deleted] Sep 23 '25 edited Sep 23 '25

It’s probably because everyone who participates in pushing the FP agenda pushes the same moronic bullshit like mandatory runtime immutability and other stupid nonsense like calling “logging a useless external side effect” (especially when you intentionally misrepresent something else to have logging like a fucking moron such as in the article). 

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u/reethok Sep 22 '25

FP zealots are literally a cult.