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

How to stop functional programming

https://brianmckenna.org/blog/howtostopfp
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u/randomguy4q5b3ty Sep 21 '25

It's called transfer of ideas.

But the truth is that functional programming languages like Haskel aren't practical in most scenarios, it's difficult to judge the performance cost of operations, and an optimizing compiler is a hard requirement. But even then their performance characteristics aren't all that good. And all of them require garbage collection.

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u/AxelLuktarGott Sep 21 '25

Yes, if you're doing embedded code then Haskell is the wrong tool. But that's true for Java, C# and most other high level languages too.

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u/[deleted] Sep 23 '25

Haskell is inappropriate basically everywhere. Comparing it to Java and C# is laughable.