The funny thing is that nobody has ever once bothered to debunk a single one of my points in any of the comments that I've ever made against Elixir or FP on HN. I've written much more detailed points in the past. Only downvotes but no meaningful responses. Nobody ever properly responded to any specific point. The best I get is "No it's not" without any further explanation.
When I said that I've never seen any well written Elixir or pure FP project in my career and challenged people to send me a link to such a project on GitHub, nobody could do this.
All I've ever seen in pure FP is spaghetti code; full of dependency injections which make it difficult to follow the logic (where does that module come from?), global state store (no different from using global variables!) or state being passed around all over the code (traversing many files since components are not allowed to hold any state), etc...
Some ideas of FP are useful, but pure FP as a philosophy is rubbish.
When I said that I've never seen any well written Elixir or pure FP project in my career and challenged people to send me a link to such a project on GitHub, nobody could do this.
All I've ever seen in pure FP is spaghetti code; full of dependency injections which make it difficult to follow the logic (where does that module come from?), global state store (no different from using global variables!) or state being passed around all over the code (traversing many files since components are not allowed to hold any state), etc...
Some ideas of FP are useful, but pure FP as a philosophy is rubbish.