The latest articles on DEV Community by Alper Cugun-Gscheidel (@alpercugun). https://dev.to/alpercugun https://media2.dev.to/dynamic/image/width=90,height=90,fit=cover,gravity=auto,format=auto/https:%2F%2Fdev-to-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fuploads%2Fuser%2Fprofile_image%2F94115%2F6fa737a9-1164-4b34-937b-7f176264ddd2.jpeg https://dev.to/alpercugun en Alper Cugun-Gscheidel Fri, 10 Feb 2023 21:25:20 +0000 https://dev.to/alpercugun/my-functional-journey-4fog https://dev.to/alpercugun/my-functional-journey-4fog <p>My functional journey went a bit like this:</p> <p>"Oh wouldn't it be nice if I could do functional programming with javascript because I already know that!"</p> <p>"Argh, javascript libraries are terrible."</p> <p>"Oh no every sublanguage has its own broken transpiler (or whatever you call this)."</p> <p>"And the documentation is all over the place and often half finished."</p> <p>"So the only serious options for hardcore functional programming are Haskell and Scala."</p> <p>"Scala, just no. Bah."</p> <p>"Haskell is nice but you can't do anything serious with it."</p> <p>"Extensions? Why is this stuff not documented?"</p> <p>"Running Haskell? Start doing a PhD on Nix and then we'll talk."</p> <p>"OK. I guess I'll write Clojure which has a nice syntax and takes advantage of the maturity of the JVM."</p> <p>"Ah, another small language with a fragmented and stagnant ecosystem."</p> <p>"I give up. Whatever functional features Rust has will have to be good enough."</p> <p>"Let me learn some category theory for fun."</p> <p>"So category theory has almost no relationship to practical functional programming and all that endofunctor stuff is just a fancy way of saying 'Screw you!'??"</p> <p>"No desire to ever touch this stuff again. Maybe I'll try logic programming instead."</p> vibecoding sideprojects learning career