Have had many hats on in my life: Developer, Team Lead, Scrum Master, Architect and Product Owner. Now back to developer \o/ Interested in product discovery, quality assurance and language design.
"And under deadline, I find that I will often go with the path of least resistance"
Yes, that's the point. The new C# features are all going in a functional direction, but it's still too easy to either skip or miss core elements of FP. But it's still interesting to see how virtually all languages currently add functional elements (or new languages start functional from the beginning, like Elm), so hope for FP becoming more mainstream is still there.
Absolutely. As several recent languages show, there's no reason why FP can't exist alongside OO (and procedural) in the same language. I'd like to believe that FP becomes the dominant paradigm before long. I just hope people don't fall into the same trap I did and get discouraged with FP. The trap was that I focused on using match and Maybe and partial application, and all the other mechanics of FP. But disappointingly, I found they didn't provide much benefit, because I wasn't striving to make pure functions with them. Nobody really explained that to me, so I thought I would take a stab at it with this post. :) Best wishes!
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Yes, that's the point. The new C# features are all going in a functional direction, but it's still too easy to either skip or miss core elements of FP. But it's still interesting to see how virtually all languages currently add functional elements (or new languages start functional from the beginning, like Elm), so hope for FP becoming more mainstream is still there.
Absolutely. As several recent languages show, there's no reason why FP can't exist alongside OO (and procedural) in the same language. I'd like to believe that FP becomes the dominant paradigm before long. I just hope people don't fall into the same trap I did and get discouraged with FP. The trap was that I focused on using
matchandMaybeand partial application, and all the other mechanics of FP. But disappointingly, I found they didn't provide much benefit, because I wasn't striving to make pure functions with them. Nobody really explained that to me, so I thought I would take a stab at it with this post. :) Best wishes!