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>Gaming and applications that require extreme performance is the only application where Fp doesn’t work well.

Sure, if you are considering pure functional programming. But neither pure functional OOP does work well in a performance context.

If you mix imperative/procedural and functional programming you can have clarity, ease of use, ease of change and some performance, too.




Each has its trade offs you lose clarity, ease of use, ease of change and performance even when you mix all styles.




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