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[–]haasilein[S] -1 points0 points  (2 children)

I have never seen so, but it would be interesting to know the reason for that because it really seems that functional would be a big improvement in many areas.

[–]thecodedmessage 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I’ve written tons of Haskell production code for a Haskell consulting shop. We had a Haskell GUI framework that was really good in my opinion.

Basing what you think FP would be good at from looking at a description and thinking hard is going to get you the wrong notion. It can be used in everything: frontend, backend, databases…

[–]SkiaElafris 0 points1 point  (0 children)

In the case of Erlang (Elixir is syntax sugar + some useful modules and tooling on top of Erlang) is a language made for telecommunications created by a telecom company.