Greenwashing

[Paolo Invernizzi]

On Friday, 29 May 2020 at 22:19:37 UTC, Jonathan M Davis wrote:

> Personally, I think that it's great to spend time using a 
> functional language as your main language for a while, because 
> it forces you to get better at functional programming practices 
> such as recursion - but it forces it by not letting you have 
> the full toolbox like a multi-paradigm language does. I'm 
> _much_ more comfortable with stuff like templates and 
> range-based code than I would have been had I not spent a fair 
> bit of time programming in Haskell previously, but honestly, I 
> hate functional languages. They're far too restrictive, and I 
> don't understand how anyone can seriously program in them 
> professionally. Debugging Haskell is a disgusting, unpleasant 
> process in comparison to an imperative or OO language. I highly 
> recommend that programmers spend some time in functional land 
> to improve their skills, but I would never want to program with 
> such tools for a living.

If someone wants to practise or have fun with a functional 
language, and at the some time have some concrete and good tool 
for a real job, I suggest giving a try to Elm.

It's rock solid, and much more easy then Haskell (its compiler is 
written in Haskell), and you can learn and be profitable in a 
really short time.

Bonus point, fantastic error messages provided and ... well you 
can avoid Javascript!