I think It can be difficult to learn functional programming because a lot of time people are also learning advanced statically-typed functional programming. So they are really learning two things at once: Functional programming, and an advanced type system. Elm isn’t super advanced when compared to something like Haskell however it is still a massive change from JavaScript or python.
I think of learning functional programming like the experience of learning to program for the first time rather than the experience learning a new programming language. It takes a lot of time and dedication but I think it pays off in the end.
Yeah! I have quite a bit of Java and C++ experience, so that wasn't really the worst part for me, but I can see that for a lot of people. The most I use FP in my day to day is React and Redux -- I don't use FP for work so this was just a quick side project!
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Great post I can totally relate!
I think It can be difficult to learn functional programming because a lot of time people are also learning advanced statically-typed functional programming. So they are really learning two things at once: Functional programming, and an advanced type system. Elm isn’t super advanced when compared to something like Haskell however it is still a massive change from JavaScript or python.
I think of learning functional programming like the experience of learning to program for the first time rather than the experience learning a new programming language. It takes a lot of time and dedication but I think it pays off in the end.
Yeah! I have quite a bit of Java and C++ experience, so that wasn't really the worst part for me, but I can see that for a lot of people. The most I use FP in my day to day is React and Redux -- I don't use FP for work so this was just a quick side project!