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Is functional programming the hipster programming paradigm? (Ep. 418)

Cassidy, Ceora, and Matt discuss functional programming and where it got its reputation as “the mustachioed hipster of programming paradigms.” Cassidy used to run a workshop teaching functional programming with JavaScript and currently works with Elixir, “a fully functional programming backend.”

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Cassidy, Ceora, and Matt discuss functional programming and where it got its reputation as “the mustachioed hipster of programming paradigms.” Cassidy used to run a workshop teaching functional programming with JavaScript and currently works with Elixir, “a fully functional programming backend.”

Episode notes:

Here’s a useful primer on functional programming with JavaScript.

This tutorial will guide you in exploring the fundamentals of functional programming with React.

If you’re looking for more info on functional programming in React, we’d like to tell you why hooks are the best thing to happen to React.

Learn why object-oriented programming (OOP) has become such a dominant paradigm.

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