Is there any hard evidence that functional programming is better?

• copilot

  17 589 9.0 Haskell

  A stream-based runtime-verification framework for generating hard real-time C code.

  

It got them 11 votes up. I asked to actually make this argument and received -4. Both sides of the claim are false, the left witnessed by things like Copilot and Obsidian, the right by the criticism of the functional style by Jon Harrop. If this is what you mean by «that is the point most of the comments tried to make» then, well, they should try harder if intellectual honesty and integrity are sought at all.

• Obsidian

  1 40 0.0 Haskell

  Obsidian Language Repository (by svenssonjoel)

It got them 11 votes up. I asked to actually make this argument and received -4. Both sides of the claim are false, the left witnessed by things like Copilot and Obsidian, the right by the criticism of the functional style by Jon Harrop. If this is what you mean by «that is the point most of the comments tried to make» then, well, they should try harder if intellectual honesty and integrity are sought at all.

• InfluxDB

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  Power Real-Time Data Analytics at Scale. Get real-time insights from all types of time series data with InfluxDB. Ingest, query, and analyze billions of data points in real-time with unbounded cardinality.

  

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