Well I don’t build games, so huge lump of salt, but I could benefit from and imagine translating into my work the language’s approach to:
- null safety
- deferred evaluation of expressions with unresolved dependencies
- types as first class values
- the real thing functional programming is about: making it possible to know what value is bound to a thing at any point in a program
The first is valuable for any program, the last is valuable for any program with multiple inputs (so, games, but also basically any human facing program because IO, or really just any program with users and real world interfaces), and types as values is a world of oysters if you like what types afford for development.
Edit: lol I forgot to expand on deferred evaluation, it’s a really good model for distributed users but could also be a good model for highly dynamic applications like one I maintain where there’s a hard constraint on synchronous execution but currently a very lazy model of what needs to be executed.
- null safety
- deferred evaluation of expressions with unresolved dependencies
- types as first class values
- the real thing functional programming is about: making it possible to know what value is bound to a thing at any point in a program
The first is valuable for any program, the last is valuable for any program with multiple inputs (so, games, but also basically any human facing program because IO, or really just any program with users and real world interfaces), and types as values is a world of oysters if you like what types afford for development.
Edit: lol I forgot to expand on deferred evaluation, it’s a really good model for distributed users but could also be a good model for highly dynamic applications like one I maintain where there’s a hard constraint on synchronous execution but currently a very lazy model of what needs to be executed.