[rubicon33]

Am I the only one who feels like declarative programming fucking sucks?

[diggan]

Am I the only one who uses declarative programming when it makes sense, and $other-type-of-programming when that make sense?

When creating UIs, I haven't found anything better than declarative programming. But in the end, it's all trade-offs, nothing seems to be a silver bullet, UI programming just fucking sucks in general.

[rubicon33]

> When creating UIs, I haven't found anything better than declarative programming

This is only true for basic UI. The more complex it gets, the less I like declarative programming.

Declarative is great for simple static UI, and configs. That's pretty much it.

[Exoristos]

Declarative programming is the best programming.

[throwaway892238]

Hard drives are the best drives.

[rad_gruchalski]

Square wheel is the best wheel.

[swingingFlyFish]

red is the best colour

[l5870uoo9y]

Once you are used to the patterns and functions coding becomes faster, easier to understand and less error prone.

[latchkey]

You should never have to "get used to the patterns"... that in itself is an anti-pattern.

[jcparkyn]

Counterpoint: Everyone had to "get used to the patterns" for the first programming style they learnt (even if they've been programming long enough to forget that).

That shouldn't be a reason to avoid learning a different style -- unless there's good reason to believe that style B's patterns are much harder to learn than style A's were (which I'm sceptical of in this specific case).