I want to be a contrarian and argue with this, but my daily praxis is generally to take a betteridges law approach to most argumentative absolutes and also false dichotomous headlines and question them. Reading the other comments to the effect that the conferences are now strong typing gabfests and insufficiently about FP per se reinforced this feeling.
Reliability should be simpler with FP but so much depends on correctness of the runtime and IO.
Erlang and the "run correctly or die" comes to mind as well. The system is either working or is off. When being off is fatal, Erlang seems to shrug and say "maybe next karmic cycle" maybe this too is a better approach?
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I want to be a contrarian and argue with this, but my daily praxis is generally to take a betteridges law approach to most argumentative absolutes and also false dichotomous headlines and question them. Reading the other comments to the effect that the conferences are now strong typing gabfests and insufficiently about FP per se reinforced this feeling.
Reliability should be simpler with FP but so much depends on correctness of the runtime and IO.
Erlang and the "run correctly or die" comes to mind as well. The system is either working or is off. When being off is fatal, Erlang seems to shrug and say "maybe next karmic cycle" maybe this too is a better approach?