Erlang https://learnyousomeerlang.com/ If you know golang and recurrence it should be easy, google basically stole channels from Erlang and syntax from Swift. Like everything else, they just stealing stuff and claiming they're great. Fucking rich script kiddies.
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Rust. It has all the good bits of functional programming but basically none of the bad bits.
Good bits:
- Strong type system (though not quite as sophisticated as Haskell or OCaml).
- Map, filter, etc.
- First class functions (though lifetimes can make this a bit awkward)
- Everything is an expression (well most things anyway).
Bad bits:
- "Point free style" and currying. IMO this is really elegant, but also makes code difficult to read very quickly. Not worth the trade-off IMO.
- No brackets/commas on function calls. Again this feels really elegant but in practice it really hurts readability.
- Global type inference. Rust requires explicit types on globals which is much much nicer.
- Custom operators. Again this is clever but unreadable.
- Small communities.
- Poor windows support (not a fundamental thing but it does seem to be an issue in practice for lots of functional languages).
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