Why Isn't Functional Programming the Norm? – Richard Feldman

What this video covers

Richard Feldman argues that functional programming is not the norm largely because of historical accidents, such as C++ popularity, platform exclusivity, marketing spend and network effects, rather than merit. He traces the history of how languages become mainstream.

Why it surfaced in Hacker News

HN treats it as the standard answer to why FP isn't mainstream and why languages succeed.

Recommendation context

Short excerpts from positive mentions. Open the source to read the full Hacker News discussion.

“Fascinating talk.”

“This talk by Richard Feldman is an excellent discussion about why Functional Programming is not the norm”

“I recommend watching it for some interesting talk about programming languages in general”