i’ve always wanted to get into functional programming, but my uni has been smitten with oop and c++ since like the 90’s or something. i started learning and writing Rust last year, which, i know, is not like an actual functional language, but i found it to be quite different from what i was used to and i want to keep exploring.

i’m a frontend developer by trade, so something like elm not only looks like fun, but also it seems like it could be a great tool for creating stable software. my only hesitancy is that the frontend world moves incredibly fast and the time i spend learning/adopting elm could be spent picking up something shinier and newer that could actually land me a job lol.

another thing i’ve heard is that programming languages like elm can teach you a lot about what it means to write cleaner code, so it’s not like my time would be entirely wasted. what do you guys think?