Ask HN: When is pure functional programming beneficial?

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2023-07-11

Programming Language Front End Package Manager OOP

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NixOS

25 Jun 2014 . All software components in NixOS are installed using the Nix package manager. Packages in Nix are defined using the nix language to create nix expressions.
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Elm

A type inferred, functional reactive language that compiles to HTML, CSS, and JavaScript
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GUI programming is fine in purely functional programming, see for example elm[0], where you have a Model - Update - View paradigm to build frontends. Another example of GUI programming in Pure FP is functional reactive programming[1]. [0] https://elm-lang.org/.

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