Functional programming

5 reasons you should care about functional programming

August 15, 2014 Coman Hamilton

Even if you don’t think you need to care about functional programming, you should. There are plenty of reasons for Javaheads to know more about them: W-Jax speaker Neal Ford gives us five.

In this keynote from W-JAX 2013, Neal Ford from ThoughtWorks explores why learning functional programming paradigms now is critical for developers with five concrete reasons.

Why it’s beneficial to cede control over mundane details to the language and runtime
How nailgun-driven development differs from building prefab houses
The wonderful benefits of immutability
Embrace results over steps
How bendable languages make hard problems easier to tackle

Even if you don’t care about Scala, Clojure, F#, or Haskell, the important features of those languages will impact your life. Now is the time to increase your comfort level with these new paradigms. 5 reasons you should care about functional programming from JAX TV on Vimeo.

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Coman was Editor of JAXenter.com at S&S Media Group. He has a master's degree in cultural studies and has written and edited content for numerous news, tech and culture websites and magazines, as well as several ad agencies.