Awesome Functional Programming

Stupid question: how do folks generally <i>use</i> awesome lists?<p>I think it&#x27;s neat they exist, but they don&#x27;t really live up to the &quot;curated&quot; promise in my mind. Mostly they seem to be a grab bag of everything under a topic, and it&#x27;s left to the reader to sort through. As such they&#x27;ve never come to mind when I&#x27;m actually researching anything.

For some scenarios, functional programming is a good match. For example, Big Data. FP has features such as lazy evaluation, which is important for Spark, for example. Not surprisingly many Big Data libs, including Spark, are written in FP languages (Spark was written in Scala).<p>For JavaScript FP is not a good match [1]. Certainly, many ideas that originated in FP work well in JavaScript, for example lambdas. But some people take FP to an extreme, to the point of saying that OOP is now obsolete. How can OOP only <i>now</i> become obsolete, given that FP has existed long before OOP? That doesn&#x27;t make sense.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;medium.com&#x2F;weekly-webtips&#x2F;dysfunctional-programming-in-javascript-cae5c085a76e" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;medium.com&#x2F;weekly-webtips&#x2F;dysfunctional-programming-...</a>

I see there is a short section about Python (6 resources).<p>I have been maintaining for the last 5 years a slightly richer collection at: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;sfermigier&#x2F;awesome-functional-python&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;sfermigier&#x2F;awesome-functional-python&#x2F;</a>

Forgive me if this sounds ignorant, but who is using pure-functional approaches in industry?<p>Again, please correct me if I&#x27;m wrong since I&#x27;ve been industry for barely 2 years: back in school functional programming looked cool, but when I entered industry(and even in my exploration through personal&#x2F;OSS projects), I have found it to be nothing more for the most part than a cool toy to play with. I can somewhat see the benefit when it comes to parallelizing Big Data, but that seems to be a very special case.<p>Again if I&#x27;m just being ignorant, please educate me :)

I&#x27;d like to recommend the following awesome expositions by Ben Lynn as well:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;crypto.stanford.edu&#x2F;~blynn&#x2F;lambda&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;crypto.stanford.edu&#x2F;~blynn&#x2F;lambda&#x2F;</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;crypto.stanford.edu&#x2F;~blynn&#x2F;compiler&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;crypto.stanford.edu&#x2F;~blynn&#x2F;compiler&#x2F;</a>

Too bad Github search doesn&#x27;t find that entry in the Awesome listing:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;sindresorhus&#x2F;awesome&#x2F;search?q=functional%20programming" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;sindresorhus&#x2F;awesome&#x2F;search?q=functional%...</a><p>And Github search should display the rendered markdown so we can click the links.

The number of monad tutorials in the haskell section is ... interesting.<p>If you order all concepts in prison programming by the product of usefulness and confusion it must be somewhere at the very top.

Too much JavaScript.

I honestly wish people new to web development would learn Elm before trying to learn the dumpster fire that is the JavaScript ecosystem.

Stared only to never use it.