> at best, a form of anti-intellectualism
This is an uncharitable viewpoint. Bringing FP concepts to more devs is a good thing. I don't see how teaching better ways is any form of anti-intellectualism.
This is an uncharitable viewpoint. Bringing FP concepts to more devs is a good thing. I don't see how teaching better ways is any form of anti-intellectualism.
It's treating OO programmers, who are curious about FP, as though they can't handle anything unless it's got "oriented programming" after it. In my mind that's a form of anti-intellectualism.
I really don't buy that it's needed at all. And I feel I'm in a pretty good place to state that, language-ext has ~6K stars on GitHub and the package has been downloaded nearly 13 million times [2]. It shows that devs that use an OO-first language can and are able to learn FP terminology. I never pandered and I get many OO devs coming to the library. Yeah, sometimes they need some guidance, but I've never needed to invented new terminology.
OO engineers are just as smart as FP engineers, they've just worked in different paradigms and need to learn the lingo when switching - the sooner they do it the better able they are to communicate with others in the FP community.