Foojay Podcast #20: Functional Programming, 'The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly'

Frank Delporte · Apr 24, 2023 · 1 min read

Functional programming splits the room. Some developers swear by it, others avoid it, and most of us land somewhere in the middle trying to figure out when it actually helps. This episode digs into that tension and looks at the real costs and benefits of going functional. Host Ties van de Ven talks with Alejandro Serrano (47 Degrees) and Deepu K Sasidharan (JHipster co-lead, Java Champion) in Foojay Podcast #20, which I produced.

What we talked about

What functional programming actually means
Shared challenges across programming paradigms
Academic approaches to programming
The purist view on FP
Why teams adopt functional programming
The costs that come with FP
The right moment to learn FP
Where functional programming heads next

See the Foojay Podcast #20 for all info, shownotes, links, etc.