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		Zababa on Sept 25, 2021 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: What will programming look like in 2020? (2012) > Functional programming ideas became mainstream, except in Go, which is a sort of reactionary back to basics language. I feel like there is also a return to basic imperative programming, with OO and functional where it makes sense.

Mikeb85 on Sept 26, 2021 [–]

Imperative programming will always be a thing as long as computer processors work the way they do (mutating and incrementing things).

kaba0 on Sept 26, 2021 | [–]

Due to all the out of order executions and pipelines, they are quite functional at the same time - so that is not a good way to look at it.

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