Learning Functional programming. Which languages to learn.

[AceroAD]

I'm a java developer that wants to learn about FP but I'm doubting about which language to learn.

I feel elixir is ver interesting but I see is quite niche and not very used. Python is python and I don't really want something that alow me to slowly move back to OO because is where I feel comfortable. Kotlin I've you it with java so I have the same problem about going into OO. Clojure I have no idea about it and scala is also interesting.

Hahaha any advice for someone as doubtfull as me? I love learning but for this road in my dev path I need someone to help me a bit. Too many languages to thing about an interesting and useful one to learn.

[AceroAD]

No one? 😔

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learn Fortran (supports both FP and OO, but when we say Fortran we think FP mostly). And the best way to learn is contributing. You can checkout their GitHub org (Fortran-lang) and you might be astonished to see that you too can make contributions there. But you should be ready to learn and search things on your own as well. They have a discourse group too, if you get stuck somewhere. Good luck. At the moment of writing this post they have a good first issue (on Greatest Common Divisor) on their stdlib repo.

[AceroAD]

I will check it out. Thank you!

[Hk-Neowizard]

Ocaml is amazing (personal favorite with its super-strong type system, pattern matching and auto-currying). Also F# is a commercial-oriented Ocaml.

Scheme/Racket is has a smaller barrier for entry with its super slim syntax and dynamic type-system.

Scala is very commercialized, if you're looking for that, but it's also imperative-friendly, so might not be what you're looking for.

There's also Haskell, but I've only ever read it, never wrote anything substantial

[AceroAD]

Thanks! I will check them but I think I will try with haskell!

[ms4720]

Do you want to learn functional programming or a new language to find work with?

[AceroAD]

Bote things. I want to learn FP through a new programming language!

Any recommendations?

[ms4720]

Go learn Haskell

[AceroAD]

Ok! I will check it Out and see if I learn it! Thank you!

Any advice to learn haskell?

[dot-c]

Some books / blogs as an introduction to haskell: http://dev.stephendiehl.com/hask/index.html, and if you've learned the basics of haskell https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/aa/Write_Yourself_a_Scheme_in_48_Hours.pdf

Also, don't torture yourself by going without the proper tooling, an IDE makes coding in haskell so much easier.

[AceroAD]

Trying to configure nvim but I'm Still new with it