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0 pointssethrin8y ago0 comments

I believe Joomla is worse in every conceivable way. And then of course there is WordPress, which I sincerely hope is the last major procedurally-written codebase. PHP has come a long way as a language (it can almost be confused for something sensible these days) but lots of issues with large libraries.

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pmarreck8y ago· 2 in thread

That's why I left the Ruby ecosystem and went to Elixir. I noticed that my coding style was getting more and more functional (just naturally... but I was also probably influenced by Rich Hickey's "Are We There Yet?" talk, and by Gary Bernhardt's "Boundaries" talk) and soon realized that functional nirvana was essentially unachievable in Ruby as long as I depended on a vast library of gems all of which were procedural/OO.

Leaped and haven't looked back yet. Great stuff.

sethrinOP8y ago

I started in PHP, migrated to Ruby, and now I think I am beginning to be annoyed at Ruby's occasional lack of expressivity. I am probably on a similar course towards FP nirvana. Do you know any place on the left coast that's playing with Elixir or Haskell?

pmarreck8y ago

More places than on the right coast! :O

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