> my brother, I live inside side-effects. The days I can have even a few pure functions are few and far between. I'm honestly curious what percentage of your code bases can be this pure.
I've never seen what you work on so there is no way I can say this with certainty, but generally people unfamiliar eith functional programming have way more code that is / or can be pure in their code base than they realize. Or put the opposite, directly as is if you were to go line by line in your code (skipping lines of comments and whitespace) and give every line a yes/no on whether is performs IO, what percentage are actually performing IO? Not are related to IO, or are preparing for or handing the results of IO, but how many lines are the actual line to write to the file or send the network packet?
Generally, it's a much smaller percentage than people are thinking because they are usually associating actual IO with things "related to" or "preparing for" or "handing results from" IO.
And then after finding that percentage to be lower than expected, it can also be made to be significantly lower by following a few functional programming design approaches.
I've never seen what you work on so there is no way I can say this with certainty, but generally people unfamiliar eith functional programming have way more code that is / or can be pure in their code base than they realize. Or put the opposite, directly as is if you were to go line by line in your code (skipping lines of comments and whitespace) and give every line a yes/no on whether is performs IO, what percentage are actually performing IO? Not are related to IO, or are preparing for or handing the results of IO, but how many lines are the actual line to write to the file or send the network packet?
Generally, it's a much smaller percentage than people are thinking because they are usually associating actual IO with things "related to" or "preparing for" or "handing results from" IO.
And then after finding that percentage to be lower than expected, it can also be made to be significantly lower by following a few functional programming design approaches.