This is of course a silly but valid criticism of a post claiming FP is better than OOP in every situation. As others have pointed out, there are functional GUI frameworks, though of course something state-heavy is going to be more naturally modeled with OOP in some cases.
But that is all beside the point- OP specifically did not claim FP was always better, just that they found it more natural. That personal and subjective experience (which I share) is utterly orthogonal to the relative maturity of GUI libraries! The fact is, most GUI frameworks are OO, and the ones I learned were all OO. And I hated them! I am not a person who enjoys making GUIs, and that's in large part because I am not a person who enjoys OOP. When I learned my first functional language, it felt like a breath of fresh air. While I was a perfectly serviceable Java and Python programmer, Haskell just made sense immediately. That doesn't make Haskell a better language in absolute terms, but it was much better for me.
Now that I've worked with functional languages, I find I actually don't mind imperative languages at all. I don't really need 100% of the bells and whistles to write composition focused code that meshes with my brain, especially since just a hint of state here or there can free you up to do the rest of it statelessly. And now I find that as I build interfaces with LiveView or Vue that I actually do enjoy making GUIs- even if there is a little state here or there.
People, and this might come as a shock, are sometimes different from each other. And sometimes their talents don't match up perfectly with whatever task you feel is important in the moment. There's lots of programming which isn't as state-heavy as a GUI, just as there's lots of programming more state heavy than a data processing pipeline.
But that is all beside the point- OP specifically did not claim FP was always better, just that they found it more natural. That personal and subjective experience (which I share) is utterly orthogonal to the relative maturity of GUI libraries! The fact is, most GUI frameworks are OO, and the ones I learned were all OO. And I hated them! I am not a person who enjoys making GUIs, and that's in large part because I am not a person who enjoys OOP. When I learned my first functional language, it felt like a breath of fresh air. While I was a perfectly serviceable Java and Python programmer, Haskell just made sense immediately. That doesn't make Haskell a better language in absolute terms, but it was much better for me.
Now that I've worked with functional languages, I find I actually don't mind imperative languages at all. I don't really need 100% of the bells and whistles to write composition focused code that meshes with my brain, especially since just a hint of state here or there can free you up to do the rest of it statelessly. And now I find that as I build interfaces with LiveView or Vue that I actually do enjoy making GUIs- even if there is a little state here or there.
People, and this might come as a shock, are sometimes different from each other. And sometimes their talents don't match up perfectly with whatever task you feel is important in the moment. There's lots of programming which isn't as state-heavy as a GUI, just as there's lots of programming more state heavy than a data processing pipeline.