I’d love to hear more about it. I’m a new grad who’s done a bunch of internships using functional programming languages but didn’t find a new grad position that does

  • @kamstrup@programming.dev
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    1 year ago

    I have written a bunch of Clojure in previous positions. But it has undergone the same fate that almost all functional code bases I have knowledge of (in corporate product settings): Colleagues have hard times getting into the functional mindset, and it becomes hard to maintain. Over the years it gets replaced with some more pragmatic hybrid- og OO language.

    I have seen the same with projects written in Haskell, Erlang, and Elixir.

    It’s all a really nice idea, but in practical reality it runs into issues with “social scaling”

    EDIT: Realizing this was not super helpful. If you want to look for positions where fp can be employed I think something academia related, or a startup where there is greater technical flexibility is something to look for

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      Not OP, but on the contrary, I think your remark about social scaling of FP code bases was very insightful!