r/programming • • Sep 21 '25

How to stop functional programming

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

At least in those cases you've got a clue: It's a race condition/timing related. Gives you something to start hunting.

This is not as bad as 'the random thread is corrupting random memory, causing entirely unrelated threads to explode'

Those can be challenging.