[test_account_123]

Learned some functional programming languages in College and was wondering if people in the industry even still use them. or if it's only for school.

[sofaspud]

pure or impure?

[Junkmannn]

I'm planning on learning Haskell myself when I get a chance.

I'd recommend watching this talk on youtube:
"GOTO 2018 • Functional Programming in 40 Minutes • Russ Olsen"
One of the main points of the talk is actually how functional programming is only going to grow and become more widely used in the future.
I believe it, especially since massive projects like Cardano (one of the largest cryptocurrencies) use Haskell to benefit from its mathematically provable nature.

Currently as I understand it, knowing a functional programming language to an expert level does give you a leg up in the CS job market for those companies whose code bases use (or can benefit from using) functional programming, as everyone and there mothers knows Javascript, Python, C#, C++, etc. But functional coders are much more rare.

[test_account_123]

Thanks for the response. I did like Functional programming when I learned it but haven't seen much use in the industry and was just wondering if it was worth continuing coz it was pretty fun. I'll give Haskell a try some time.

[eru29643]

If this thread is still active I would like to add to this - functional languages are often used in academic environments. Especialy by mathematicians :p

[jeanpaulffamilyaa]

They are used outside of academics as well, there some tasks which are easier to write in functional languages than in imperative. The .NET framework has F# for example, and paket (alternative to nuget package manager) is written fully in F#.