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by awesome_dude 140 days ago
I typically reach for Go when I am building things, bubbletea, a TUI library uses the Elm architecture and enforces it on people using it.

Did not like, Won't use again.

MVC is well understood and works perfectly in my experience.

edit:

Even though you were tongue in cheek about F# - this stood out on the page

> The functional programming community has design patterns and principles as well.

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IMO the ELM architecture only works with pure functions. It doesn't work with languages which cannot provide this compile time guarantee. Also functional programming needs a different mindset / training. You won't benefit from it until you understand what it actually brings to the table (and what it leaves out).
I have to ask - I like some of the paradigms of Functional programming (IMO it makes concurrent programming a lot easier because state is never shared)

Why hasn't it cut through, like OO did?

and

Beam has been around since the 90s, had a good marquee project (RabbitMQ) but still has low adoption

I am not sure I if I can speak to that in general but personally I discovered functional programming late. Object oriented programming was all the rage when I got initiated and that is all that was taught in colleges.