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by osclarto
1037 days ago
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totally agree, for me golang is a strongly imperative language and that's ok. I'm willing to be proved wrong, but I would imagine if you want to do functional programming it's going to be a lot easier to just use a different language. |
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I'm biased because I've built a career on Go at this point but the pragmatism and ability to just get things done in Go without faffing about with unnecessary abstractions is I think one of the strongest practical demonstrations of how incredible an imperative language can be, and for me personally at least, no FP language will ever beat the productivity that I can achieve with Go, especially because at least in my problem domain the real world problems always have enough corner cases that FP wouldn't even be useful.
In Go I just systematically eliminate and handle each possible step and state, in a straightforward way, directly deal with the business logic, and then it's done and it works predictably and efficiently for years. Interfaces really are a sufficient form of polymorphism, too.