Functional programming has been around for the last 60 years, but so far it’s always been a niche phenomenon. Although game-changers like Google rely on its key concepts, the average programmer ...

The object-oriented paradigm popularized by languages including Java and C++ has slowly given way to a functional programming approach that is advocated by popular Python libraries and JavaScript ...

It’s a programming style that rose to prominence with languages like Clojure, Scala, and Elm, but you can get into the functional mindset right within JavaScript.

Javascript has multiple libraries implementing functional paradigms. Rust, a relative newcomer in the systems programming world, boasts many functional features.

JavaScript is now the world's most popular programming language, even though it started off as a side-kick to Java. Written by Liam Tung, Contributing Writer Dec. 4, 2020 at 5:20 a.m. PT ...

Purely functional programming is a brilliant idea with a misleading name. When people talk about “purely functional programming”, they mean Haskell or something like Haskell. But that’s not ...

Many other languages can be used for functional programming tasks, however, such as Java, JavaScript, Ruby, Scala, Python and Apple’s recently launched Swift.

“With this, I mean not only Web apps, but also Node, mobile, or desktop, with GitHub Electron.” JavaScript developers, meanwhile, get a chance to work with functional programming.

Only three languages from the most-used top ten were in the most-loved list; Python (#3), JavaScript (#7), and C# (#8). For the third year running, that list was topped by Rust, the new systems ...

Figure 1. Functional JavaScript is available as an ebook (without DRM) from O'Reilly or as a paperback. Anyone who has followed my missives on programming have noted the varied exposure to ...