I am not so much scared by functional programming as I am annoyed by functional programmers. I feel that they often come over like mathematics professors that just fill the chalkboard with lightning speed and look at you like "seriously, how dare you ask this dumb question". They go ahead explaining to you how your language is crap for all its sideeffects, smugly explaining how their language doesn't have those and then explain to you how Simon Peyton Jones shoehorned them into haskell with a monad. Also you always appear to fail to understand monads and they always fail to explain in an understandable way (although they're not that hard to get).
Functional programming is great and feels right, I am amazed how knowledge of fp affects my js, C# and Python up to this day. But from a social perspective: Loose the smugness, and then we'll talk fp.
Functional programming is great and feels right, I am amazed how knowledge of fp affects my js, C# and Python up to this day. But from a social perspective: Loose the smugness, and then we'll talk fp.