Why not go full functional programming at that point? If the main issue with FP has been accessibility, then it should really take off now.
Why not go full functional programming at that point? If the main issue with FP has been accessibility, then it should really take off now.
When you do fully value-oriented programming in Rust (i.e. no interior mutability involved) that's essentially functional programming. There's mutable, ephemeral data involved, but it's always confined to a single well-defined context and never escapes from it. You can even have most of your code base be sans-IO, which is the exact same pattern you'd use in Haskell.
I actually like rust more than Haskell, but `You can even have most of your code base be sans-IO, which is the exact same pattern you'd use in Haskell.` glosses over the fact that in Haskell it's enforced at compile time.
I wouldn’t because idiomatic Haskell is way slower than idiomatic Rust.
Isn’t Rust a pretty good functional language? It has most of the features that enable safe, correct code without being anal about immutability and laziness that make performance difficult to predict.