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by nextmove 1126 days ago
I began my journey into functional programming a couple months back with Erlang. Interestingly this language helped me truly comprehend the functional like ways of Rust.

My only gripes would be that I've had to switch to Elixir as it's more developed for web development. I actually like the syntax of Erlang more (I don't come from Ruby) and it's a shame that they're split. Also, in Elixir, I attempted to write the fibonacci sequence using memoization and the solutions I saw online were horrendously ugly. Maybe it's because I'm still a beginner but I did see an example in Haskell and it looked so much cleaner.

I love how simple the actor model is and how it just works in Erlang. No ifs, ands, or buts.