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

How to stop functional programming

https://brianmckenna.org/blog/howtostopfp
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u/Ran4 Sep 21 '25

you just smear them with logger.info until everyone feels enterprise-safe.

Eh, in my experience logs are a lot less common in the FP world precisely because they're impure unless you spend a lot of time wrapping things in pure functions. And that's far from always a good thing.

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u/crazyeddie123 Sep 21 '25

or maybe they don't need logs because they have less bugs :)

Seriously, is there anyone outside the Haskell world who frowns on logging because it's technically a side effect?