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Discussion on: Why is functional programming gaining popularity?

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billperegoy

I think it's because state management is becoming one of the biggest issues in modern development. Debugging large applications with tons of distributed state is a huge challenge. Isolating and controlling state in a functional, immutable way makes this a much more manageable problem.

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Dina Gathe

Bingo! :-)