It’s an endlessly weird experience having more or less left the functional programming community and then watch it go mainstream. Probably the worst part is watching a fringe elitism morph into a more powerful mainstream elitism.
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The idea that mutation isn’t scary when you don’t have sharing, and that you can use imperative programming when you have a methodology for aliasing really was
for me. I know Rust didn’t invent this insight but it did cement for me that FP is *just one* of many disciplines. -
Yeah. (Isn't this insight part of why SPJ always says that Haskell is a great language to do imperative programming in?)
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