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Has anyone else completely lost interest in non-"functional" languages after spending years making the same OO mistakes?

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Yes, and then I lost interest in in functional languages after discovering the beauty of imperative programming for predictability and performance. All major programming paradigms can be useful, some are better suited for some problem than others.

Sounds like you just jumped from one bandwagon to another.

I’d wonder that except that I’m finding I’m writing far fewer bugs

Fortunately there is some empirical data becoming available to support this (single data point) assertion:

“Functional languages have a smaller relationship to defects than other language classes such as procedural languages” – A Large Scale Study of Programming Languages and Code Quality in Github

“Functional and scripting languages provide significantly more concise code than procedural and object-oriented languages.” – A Comparative Study of Programming Languages in Rosetta Code

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