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I've always had a hard time breaking into FP paradigms. The basic tutorials feel a bit like math proofs and it's hard to connect the ideas into things I'm actually doing.

As it turned out, I accidentally started learning some functional-lite paradigms in Python. I learned that I actually do like some of these paradigms, and think through them already, I just couldn't connect my internal understanding with the language of FP.

I started learning Rust recently, as it's an exciting systems language with some hype. There, you see even more functional bits which is just a pleasure to use. I'm not in an area where purely functional would make sense but having the quality of life that certain paradigms brings is nice.

I'm still very much a novice in FP techniques, but the ability to try aspects as I go is helpful in learning.