muunbo

Genuine question - I currently pay for ChatGPT Plus but I am wondering if I can just use Gemini for everything? What are the pros and cons in your experience. My main use cases are debugging web dev stuff, asking which tool is best for different parts of my side projects, generating an image once in a while for my blog posts/youtube videos, and sometimes just asking random questions / curiosities (the same as I would have asked on google/wikipedia back in the day)

Whenever I read a functional programming tutorial or course, it always sings the praises of how there's an amazing REPL you can use to experiment with your code, or it will teach how to map and reduce over sequences, or first-class functions, or currying.

The problem for me is, all of these awesome features already exist in popular languages like JS and Python.

Then there's the "purity" side of things. For e.g. tutorials for Haskell and Clojure say that "mutation and side effects are not allowed" which makes for a more predictable program. But in my experience, I can totally just re-define variables in the REPL and no one stops me. I don't even get a warning. So I'm not sure if I'm missing something, but so far it doesn't feel so different from writing fancy ES6 syntax.

The last thing is "macros". This one seems to be actually unique to FP languages like Clojure, etc. But is this the only unique feature of FP languages?

Genuinely curious, please help me clear up my understanding. I have so far been following some fun Clojure and Haskell tutorials and these languages are very fun/sleek/logical to write in.

I am just wondering if I could accomplish the same in JS easily without learning whole new languages and ecosystems.

If you work in aerospace, do you have to actually consider collisions with other satellites or with debris?

How bad of a problem is it really and how do you solve it?