• dreadbeef@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    18 hours ago

    ocaml and haskell and erlang power like… a shitton of industry production code. If erlang software disappeared, internet dies for a bit until people replace all the broken routers.

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      14 hours ago

      Isn’t functional stuff closely related to type theory & type systems in all langs? In that sense, it’s prevented whole classes of bugs from ever getting to prod in the first place.

      Responsible for 0% of code in production

      Best code is no code at all