Ask HN: Why didn't functional programming work for you?

16 points by rienbdj 17 days ago | 1 comment

For those who have attempted to use a functional programming language (Haskell, Clojure, OCaml, F#, Elm, …) and failed to have it stick -

What went wrong? What roadblocks did you run into?

znpy 17 days ago |

For me (tried scala professionally in ~2015) it was:

- Too much fanfare to do trivial things

- sub-par tooling (sbt wasn’t that great)

- libraries that were their own world and had sub-par documentation, often implicitly assuming you already knew how to use the library

I have no hard feelings for scala, it’s just not my thing.

At the time i also kinda lost the interest for functional languages because i tried golang and it was incredibly more practical, productive and fun to write.