There's been a bit of an elephant in the room for Aussie FP community organisers the last couple of years. I thought it would be fun to share and compare notes.
The root of the "problem" is that functional programming won! /1
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We said "look at the green grass over here!" and some people came over, but most planted grass in their own paddocks instead, and now there are green shoots everywhere. Haven't we made progress toward what we consider should be common goals? Shouldn't our approach differ now?
It depends on the common goals. I typically try to establish common ground software-engineering related goals. I've seen regression in my bubble. "Functional Programming" becomes a distant idea, disconnected from software-engineering.
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Hmm that's interesting. Would love to chat more about this
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Yeah coolo, I'm up for it when it becomes viable.
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Yes! I see this mental disconnect and it's puzzling and infuriating. If you didn't think FP was for software engineering, then what's the point? I think for some it's purely ornamental.
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I also think it's ornamental, by projection. "I am going to learn FP because it's cool and that's the point [and ∴ that's why you also use FP]."
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