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mattmein | 3 years ago

Data structure + algorithm is a valid way of building large programs. That is basically how Clojure is designed, and it works pretty well for big applications.

Functional programming in aviation: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=0x3EIqBrZxw

Functional programming in banking: https://www.finextra.com/newsarticle/36297/nubank-buys-firm-...

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jcelerier|3 years ago

Can you show one large-ish GUI software written in Clojure? Something like, idk, Blender, DaVinci Resolve, Unreal Engine...

mattmein|3 years ago

My point is that there is nothing about functional programming, specifically the "Data structure + Algorithm" style, that makes it unsuitable for building complex applications like air traffic control system or bank lending system, and it has in fact been used successfully in domains like that.

If you are really interesting in this topic, check out the following pages: https://clojure.org/community/success_stories

https://wiki.haskell.org/Haskell_in_industry

thom|3 years ago

The Defold game engine IDE is written in Clojure, using cljfx, a React-like wrapper around JavaFX:

https://defold.com/

RedShift1|3 years ago

The problem with that is that (nearly?) every GUI toolkit is object oriented so you can't escape it if you want to write GUI programs.