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I'm getting started with functional programming, which language would you recommend? (self.programming)
submitted 2 months ago by lena to c/programming@programming.dev
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Specifically, I'm interested in BEAM, but I'm not sure if I should go for Elixir or Gleam. What seems cool about Gleam is that it has static typing.

I have no experience with functional programming at all btw

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[–] NotANick@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago

If you’re interested in BEAM anyways, Gleam is just a lovely language to work with. It makes many functional principles easy to work with rather than mathematical. Although I don’t have any experience in Elixir, so I can’t judge how it compares in detail.