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Unison | A friendly, statically-typed, functional programming language from the future · Unison programming language (www.unison-lang.org)
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A friendly programming language from the future.

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[–] 2 points 2 years ago (1 child)

It's not really fair to state that functional languages aren't battle tested or imply they aren't useful in real world problem solving, Erlang/Elixir prove that.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    functional languages aren’t battle tested or imply they aren’t useful in real world problem solving

    Yup, I never said that, though? What I was about was to draw a parallel between functional programming languages and explorations from several decades ago vs the new languages and explorations going into effect typing/capabilities programming now (and the long way ahead for those).

    What I find interesting is that those pioneering FP languages never came to top the popularity chart, implying that I'm not expecting Unison to be different (but the good parts might make it into Java/C#/Python/… many years from now).

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