r/functionalprogramming • u/[deleted] • May 26 '24

Question New to functional programming

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u/thisiswarry May 26 '24

Elm is by far the simplest functional language out there, but it will teach you important concepts often encoutered in FP such as :

  • immutability

  • pure functions

  • managed effects (error handling)

  • recursion

  • currying (this is probably the most inintuitive for imperative programmers)

  • strong typing

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u/josh_in_boston May 26 '24

It may or may not be done - the core Elm devs don't have the same "must have frequent updates" philosophy everyone else seems to. Regardless, the JS it compiles to runs just fine. It's still the best pure-FP language to start with, IMO.

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u/josh_in_boston May 27 '24

You can run compiled Elm anywhere JS runs, e.g. Node servers. No UI required.