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0 pointsotabdeveloper42y ago0 comments

Development time.

"Parse API-produced JSON as a contract" is exactly the kind of programming problem pure functional languages were supposed to solve.

And we're building horrific and error-prone rube-goldberg machines to bolt onto our functional programming languages instead.

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cies2y ago· 1 in thread

> And we're building horrific and error-prone rube-goldberg machines to bolt onto our functional programming languages instead.

You literally make no sense to me. Are you sure we are talking about the same thing?

I mean sure: writing JSON parsers takes time, but once written they are awesome.

> writing JSON parsers takes time

The promise of pure functional programming was to never write a 'JSON parser' by hand ever again. (Among other things.)

The paradigm failed because people in charge of Haskell and Elm and other similar languages failed at their job.

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