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[-] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago

It's not really fair to state that functional languages aren't battle tested or imply they aren't useful in real world problem solving, Erlang/Elixir prove that.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago

functional languages aren’t battle tested or imply they aren’t useful in real world problem solving

Yup, I never said that, though? What I was about was to draw a parallel between functional programming languages and explorations from several decades ago vs the new languages and explorations going into effect typing/capabilities programming now (and the long way ahead for those).

What I find interesting is that those pioneering FP languages never came to top the popularity chart, implying that I'm not expecting Unison to be different (but the good parts might make it into Java/C#/Python/… many years from now).

[-] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

All good, that was just how your comment read to me.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

Sorry if it came that way :)

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