Mixing generics and functional programming simplifies writing some extensibility libraries tremendously. For example, combining these techniques makes it easy to create a generic Undo library.

Newly introduced in Go 1.18, generics reduce the amount of boilerplate you need in your code, without sacrificing backwards compatibility Many programming languages have the concept of generic ...

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Functional programming has been around for the last 60 years, but so far it’s always been a niche phenomenon. Although game-changers like Google rely on its key concepts, the average programmer ...

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The functional programming tribe is unlikely to overthrow the imperative majority, but it may achieve many of its goals by stealth, by becoming an essential tool in the developers' kit.

What is something you wish you knew when you first started functional programming? This question was originally answered on Quora by Tikhon Jelvis.

Purely functional programming is a brilliant idea with a misleading name. When people talk about “purely functional programming”, they mean Haskell or something like Haskell.

Mixing generics and functional programming simplifies writing some extensibility libraries tremendously. For example, combining these techniques makes it easy to create a generic Undo library.