Functional languages are popular in some circles (e.g. academics interested in theorem proving) but most large-scale software development does still uses imperative languages. This is precisely the kind of decision that we’d expect large software development companies to be rational about, and we should Aumann-update from that: functional programming is not the future of anything.
“This is precisely the kind of decision that we’d expect large software development companies to be rational about,”
Have you ever worked for a large software development company? In my experience the percentage of decisions made rationally tends asymptotically to 0 as the size of the company increases...
Are you sure? Software development seems like a fairly efficient market: low cost of entry, plenty of innovators, enormous market cap, few subsidies, rapid turnover of companies. Nothing about functional programming seems particularly prone to cognitive biases. It would be remarkable if software companies were all completely stupid and nobody had ever realised for long enough to become a billionaire.
Functional languages are popular in some circles (e.g. academics interested in theorem proving) but most large-scale software development does still uses imperative languages. This is precisely the kind of decision that we’d expect large software development companies to be rational about, and we should Aumann-update from that: functional programming is not the future of anything.
“This is precisely the kind of decision that we’d expect large software development companies to be rational about,”
Have you ever worked for a large software development company? In my experience the percentage of decisions made rationally tends asymptotically to 0 as the size of the company increases...
Are you sure? Software development seems like a fairly efficient market: low cost of entry, plenty of innovators, enormous market cap, few subsidies, rapid turnover of companies. Nothing about functional programming seems particularly prone to cognitive biases. It would be remarkable if software companies were all completely stupid and nobody had ever realised for long enough to become a billionaire.
I can’t talk much about my job, especially since I’m posting using my real name. But yes, I’m sure...