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I still love Haskell, had dedicated several years to it while at the university. Was impossible to land a job with Haskell. Did some Scala but it’s in demise. F# and OCaml are extremely niche. Ever fewer opportunities and engineering management is convinced it’s impossible to hire functional programmers.

In this new AI-driven world, is there still place for such a luxury as functional programming?

I mean few people still code by hand, few read the generated code, models aren’t trained on functional languages, it’s inefficient token wise to use functional languages - while a lot become self-proclaimed software engineers overnight by just prompting LLMs.

parent jmaker 1 month ago

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