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		tome on Dec 24, 2024 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Compiling C to Safe Rust, Formalized Haskell was most certainly not made to address a concern about programmers being really bad at parallelism and thread safety.

ActorNightly on Dec 24, 2024 [–]

It absolutely has. The functional programming paradigm is designed specifically to describe a program withoilut side effects, so you can be sure that execution is deterministic (and thus scalable and parallelizable). There are no other advantages to functional programming.

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