Immutability, a lack of side effects, and composability are some of the features that have recently increased the popularity of functional programming languages, especially in the era of microservices ...

Most of the discussions we have in the software industry today revolve around developer productivity: How do we make it possible for fewer developers to produce more software in less time? Reducing ...

An increasing number of developers are now able to embed functional programming inside of traditional programming languages, including those found within the codebases of enterprise-level software ...

Functional programming languages work on an entirely different level than widely understood procedural and object-oriented programming techniques. The functional language approach is to create ...

Overview:  Elixir is designed for building scalable and maintainable applications on the Erlang VM. Its lightweight processes ...

A programming language that is based primarily on writing algorithms (functions). The syntax of functional programming (FP) is mathematical, and the languages are used for applications such as ...

Functions are fundamental to code organization; they exist in all higher order programming languages. Generally, functional programming means using functions to the best effect for creating clean and ...

However, more programming decisions have yet to be made. My feeling when I wrote “Is Parallel Programming In Your Future?” was that the basic change would be from the sequential mode of procedural ...

Languages that got robbed by the hype cycle!

Java 8 introduced Java developers to functional programming with lambda expressions. This Java release effectively notified developers that it’s no longer sufficient to think about Java programming ...