Comments on: In Search of the Best Functional Programming Back-End: 2021 Update https://jessewarden.com/2021/01/in-search-of-the-best-functional-programming-back-end-2021-update.html Software | Fitness | Gaming Fri, 05 Feb 2021 15:23:21 +0000 hourly 1 By: JesterXL https://jessewarden.com/2021/01/in-search-of-the-best-functional-programming-back-end-2021-update.html/comment-page-1#comment-254800 Fri, 05 Feb 2021 15:23:21 +0000 https://jessewarden.com/?p=6140#comment-254800 In reply to gotofritz.

Elixir doesn’t have types. There is Gleam and others: https://github.com/gleam-lang/gleam but all that BEAM power of concurrency seems pointless when I’m a serverless kid and just let AWS handle it.

]]> By: gotofritz https://jessewarden.com/2021/01/in-search-of-the-best-functional-programming-back-end-2021-update.html/comment-page-1#comment-254711 Mon, 25 Jan 2021 09:48:31 +0000 https://jessewarden.com/?p=6140#comment-254711 Surprised not to see Elixir in there

]]> By: MJ https://jessewarden.com/2021/01/in-search-of-the-best-functional-programming-back-end-2021-update.html/comment-page-1#comment-254705 Sun, 24 Jan 2021 21:37:13 +0000 https://jessewarden.com/?p=6140#comment-254705 I am in a very similar boat. After watching Dan Grossman’s Programming Languages course where the first half teaches you ML, I fell in love with the language. Sadly, it is hard to use ML after using modern programming environments/tooling. By the way, if you haven’t watched his videos, they might be the best technical teachings I have ever seen. Highly recommended.

I went through a lot of the same languages as you. It feels like what I want is Rust with a GC. Once you use ADTs for modeling with pattern matching and get rid of null, it is painful using anything else.

After bouncing off of it a couple times, I ended up picking F# and I’m currently building all my side projects in it. I hold my nose at some of the .NET stuff but it is pretty close to what I want: ADTs + pattern matching, modern tooling, functional with some escape hatches, big ecosystem (most of the stuff I use has F# wrappers), super friendly community.

Another up-and-comer you might want to keep an eye on is Gleam (https://gleam.run). It looks promising.

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