cercerilla

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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.

[–] cercerilla@programming.dev 1 points 2 years ago

I use Haskell at work. At my current job it’s my teams primary language, and almost all code we write is in Haskell. I’ve been using Haskell at work for years now, but more often as a secondary or tertiary language along side others.

Haskell, and FP generally, work well for everyday industrial programming. In my experience I’ve never found there to be an issue that was a dealbreaker- although there are tradeoffs.

That said, whenever I’ve looked for work I’ve always looked at non-FP roles in addition to FP roles because there are just fewer FP jobs out there.

 

Rofi-Hoogle is a tool I wrote a couple of years ago to scratch a particular itch: I was often wanting to quickly remind myself of the name or types of functions while writing, and I didn't always want to search Hoogle or spin up a repl to figure out what I needed. I was already using rofi to quickly reference other information, so I decided to build an integration to let me reference a local hoogle DB with a single keystroke directly from my desktop.

 

FP is a big umbrella with a lot of interesting work happening. Let's help one-another stay up-to-date by sharing links of some of our favorite FP and FP-adjacent talks.

 

Hi everyone. I thought I'd kick off the functional programming community here by sharing an article from my own blog on Haskell's fixed point function.

[–] cercerilla@programming.dev 1 points 2 years ago

I'd love to see a functional programming community (url name: fp , display name FunctionalProgramming). I'm most interested in Haskell, but it might be best to start with a larger umbrella and split into smaller communities if/when there's a sufficiently large userbase to justify it.