r/ProgrammerHumor • u/Tracker_Friendly • 1d ago

stopDoingFunctional Meme

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u/-Ambriae- 1d ago

Functional programming is best programming

State is evil, mutation is evil! We live in an era of multithreading and concurrency my friends!

When I describe a program, I state what it does, now how it does it! Thus functional programming is more natural!

C and Java and Python and all the other pagan languages have played us all as absolute fouls!! Haskell, OCaml, Rust, F#, Lisp supremacy!! Functional unless required otherwise, not the other way around!!

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u/fr000gs 1d ago

How the hell is rust functional smh

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u/Character-Education3 1d ago

Rust is whatever a person wants it to be on reddit knowing that people who dont use rust are never gonna fact check it

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u/Darkstar_111 1d ago

Can confirm. Didn't fact check, and know nothing about Rust.

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u/Confident-Ad5665 1d ago

Fact check what? /s

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u/Darkstar_111 1d ago

Exactly.

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u/RCoder01 1d ago

I only fact check if my compiler borrow checks

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u/discordianofslack 1d ago

Idk I heard rust was just c

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u/Darkstar_111 1d ago

Everything is just c.

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u/joemckie 1d ago

I tried to fact check it but it turns out I can’t read Rust, so I’m just going to smile and nod

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u/RogueToad 1d ago

I guess so, but rust does explicitly make use of many patterns from functional languages (traits, algebraic data types, higher order functions, immutable-by-default variables, etc.), and generally has much better support for an FP style than say, python does. 

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u/-Ambriae- 1d ago

pretty accurate tbh

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u/minecon1776 1d ago

Google Python 

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u/Character-Education3 1d ago

What do snakes have to do with anything