The advantage of using pure functional language for frontend than JS hack

[mkunikow]

@GeetHoobs

Makes me want to check it out, perhaps we could learn it and and apply the principles to any tools out there gradually? Elixir itself not strongly-typed and yet people are here for its OTP. Is it the right mindset?

Will reading a Haskell book help adopt a functional programming mindset?

I’ve been using Elixir on personal projects for a while (I even managed to create a dashboard tool at work using Elixir which is now on some screens in the office), but I still feel I haven’t made the switch of mindset from imperative to functional, I’m working with Java at work, and I think that thinking more functional will help me to be a better programmer. I studied functional programming at uni a long time ago, but now I really wanna go in depth to change my mindset, and I think that in ord…