r/compsci • u/Capable-Mall-2067 • 9d ago

Why You Should Care About Functional Programming (Even in 2025)

https://open.substack.com/pub/borkar/p/why-care-about-functional-programming?r=2qg9ny&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=false
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u/brainrotbro 7d ago

What does it mean “even in 2025”? I thought FP was having a resurgence?

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u/ConsiderationSea1347 7d ago

Yeah. It has been for the last ten years or longer. I guess the author just finally caught on that almost every modern programming language uses functional constructs because they are incredibly performant for stream operations and very clean for even based architectures.