There’s no doubt that functional programming is gaining traction, whereas object-oriented programming has attracted some harsh criticism in the last few years.

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 ...

Functional programming is sometimes defined in opposition to object-oriented programming (OOP) and procedural programming. That is misleading as these approaches are not mutually exclusive and ...

Functional programming’s origins stretch back to the early days of programming languages with the creation of LISP in the late 1950s. But while LISP and its dialects like Common LISP and Scheme ...

Functional programming is a hot topic. The 2021 Developer Survey from Stack Overflow ranked functional languages among the most loved. Popular JavaScript libraries like React and Angular let you use ...

Object-oriented versus functional programming. I’ve created a Java application that contrasts the imperative, object-oriented and declarative, functional programming approaches to writing code.

While it might be acceptable to mutate a member variable in procedural or object-oriented programming, in functional programming it's frowned upon to change the state of a variable outside the scope ...

Even though object-oriented programming remains popular today, the vigorous development of functional programming during the last decades and the acceptance of many of its positive features (clean, ...