Not because I see myself writing practical software with it (I'm a Node/React/Ruby dev by day right now), but because I'd like to go beyond the dipping-my-toes in phase of thinking functionally.
JS is a perfectly usable functional language, but only if you treat it that way. Being able to drop into OO and write procedural code easily has been holding my self-education back. For example, monads are a simple enough concept that I have been using for years but only actually understood this week due to stubborn subconscious refusal to read about them.
It might be just because learnyouahaskell.com is such a great resource, though.
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Not because I see myself writing practical software with it (I'm a Node/React/Ruby dev by day right now), but because I'd like to go beyond the dipping-my-toes in phase of thinking functionally.
JS is a perfectly usable functional language, but only if you treat it that way. Being able to drop into OO and write procedural code easily has been holding my self-education back. For example, monads are a simple enough concept that I have been using for years but only actually understood this week due to stubborn subconscious refusal to read about them.
It might be just because learnyouahaskell.com is such a great resource, though.