We of the blessed church of Functional Programming pride ourselves on our immutability, purity and lack of noxious side-effects. We do not mutate the state. We only produce new and better state. Deterministic state. Correct state. The best state. Except that I work in Elixir. Elixir is built on Erlang. I like to think Erlang being FP is mostly an accidental side-effect of trying to solve a bunch of complex requirements around distributed systems, fault tolerance and consistently low latency (...
