Ron Pressler - Pull Push: Please stop polluting our imperative languages with pure concepts-Curry On

Why HN readers recommended it

Recommended as the case for blocking code and virtual threads over monads and async/await.

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Video & recommendation details

Creator / channel

Curry On!

Topic

imperative vs functional programming

Format

talk

Level

advanced

HN recommenders in dataset

3

HN mentions in dataset

4

Recommendation years in dataset

2015–2024

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From the original HN conversations

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• That's a fair point overall. It's basically the entirety of the debate between functional languages and imperative languages. Nonetheless, it is still pretty good question as far as someone trying to understand the differences and why it might be useful. @hmehta, one of my recent …

• > Or Java? Yes - that was implied in the same sentence where I wrote "(e.g. exceptions or actual compiler enforced error handling like Rust)." :-) > As far as I know, race conditions happen and leak out into production with Scala and Java. They …

• Does it shake out to any real advantage? To put it shortly: Writing single-threaded blocking code is far easier for most people and has many other benefits, like more understandable and readable programs: [VIDEO] The main reason why non-blocking IO with it's style of intertwining …