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How did you get started with Functional Programming? (programming.dev)

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Hello fellow FP-Lemmyites. I'd love to hear stories about what got you interested in FP originally, and how you learned.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Started my career as a Java dev, Scala was just starting to take off at the time (circa 2016, so for instance LinkedIn had recently been rewritten from Ruby On Rails to using Scala with Play Framework and a generally stateless paradigm), so I started tinkering with it and Play Framework. When Java started picking up more FP features I started using them in my day job. In addition to all that, I started learning Python and Rust around that time, which influenced how I tended to use those languages as well, leaning more towards a Functional paradigm than OO or imperative. These days my job is primarily in Python, but I constantly use Functional style in my Python code.