Is functional programming the future ?

[asvny]

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[passy]

No, I don't think that functional programming is *the future. The core principles of functional programming lie in maths and predate imperative programming by decades. It was dismissed as impractical for long, mostly due to technical limitations, and is having a rapid comeback these days.

This is actually what I like most about FP. It's not a new idea. It's not the New Hot JavaScript Framework that is going to be obsolete by next Thursday. The Lambda Calculus was invented in 1930 and is going to celebrate its 86th birthday soon. It is more than just an ad-hoc invention for one particular problem which seems to be the most important business objective to attack right now.

I've been writing functional code for quite a while now and I see it pretty much everywhere I look. (Being at Twitter might also skew my view slightly.)
Functional programming is the past, the present and the future.

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[asvny]

@passy Excellent answer !

[passy]

@annamalai-saro Thank you! :)