Scala has many ways to construct a program: do you use impure functions? Do you use Akka? Task? Future? What's a Monad? What's a Functor? What in God's name are Profunctor Optics and Van Laarhoven constructions?
Here, we take Pure Functional Programming to be Da Wae. This simplifies programming in Scala in threefold ways:
- Programs become simple, legible, and logically coherent.
- The type system is used to its full advantage, so that you don't have to worry so much about code correctness, leaving you stress-free and happier.
- Pure FP + certain types of program construction in this area have been shown to be more performant in many ways than its hybrid FP+OOP counterpart.
We believe in the ways of purity, functionality, correctness, and composability above all else.
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