https://cloudmato.com/tags/functional-programming/Recent content in Functional-Programming on cloudmato.comHugo -- gohugo.ioencloudmato.comcloudmato.comThu, 04 Jun 2026 16:32:06 +0530https://cloudmato.com/posts/functional-programming-vs-oop-do-you-need-both/Thu, 04 Jun 2026 16:32:06 +0530cloudmato.comhttps://cloudmato.com/posts/functional-programming-vs-oop-do-you-need-both/<p>OOP is 50+ years old. Classes, objects, inheritance — it works, everyone knows it, almost every popular language supports it. So why are people talking about functional programming like it&rsquo;s some revelation? Because OOP is great at modelling <em>things</em>. FP is great at modelling <em>transformations</em>. Most real software has both, and conflating the two is where the confusion starts.</p> <h2 class="header-anchor-wrapper">What Is Functional Programming, Actually? <a href="#what-is-functional-programming-actually" class="header-anchor-link"> <svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="1rem" height="1rem" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round"> <line x1="4" y1="9" x2="20" y2="9"></line><line x1="4" y1="15" x2="20" y2="15"></line><line x1="10" y1="3" x2="8" y2="21"></line><line x1="16" y1="3" x2="14" y2="21"></line> </svg> </a> </h2> <p>Not &ldquo;functions inside a class.&rdquo; That&rsquo;s just OOP with functions.</p>