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by vineyardmike 843 days ago
Hey, incremental improvements are still improvements. Convincing everyone to change the world is hard just for immutable types or sum types or something. But I’ve seen that slowly adding in functional programming to Java caused my team to get aggressive about using it, and demand it in code reviews. Sometimes you just need the Trojan horse and people will like what they find. I don’t think I’ll convince my team to drop Java, but they’re convinced that FP is important to include, at least in little bits.