Ask HN: Is functional programming inherently difficult?

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Functional programming is very popular on HN, but less so in the wider developer community. Many consider functional programming "hard". But is functional programming actually difficult, or is this merely a symptom of developers learning procedural languages first?

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It is more difficult than OOP because of its strong association with mathematics (ie category theory and logic). Without this background knowledge it becomes like a magic black box with monads, monoids, applicatives..etc etc

The human brain understands objects more intuitively rather than abstract mathematical objects.

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