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12 Jul 2025 Lex Fridman Podcast #474 – DHH: Future of Programming, AI, Ruby on Rails, Productivity & Parenting
“I think the monolith can be thought of as quite roomy, quite as a big tent that the monolith needs actually to borrow a little bit of functional programming for the kinds of problems that that excels, that discipline excels its solving and that paradigm excels its solving.”
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…Is that idea a bit at tension with the beauty of the monolith system? I think the monolith can be thought of as quite roomy, quite as a big tent that the monolith needs actually to borrow a little bit of functional programming for the kinds of problems that that excels, that discipline excels its solving and that paradigm excels its solving. If you also want object orientation at its core, I actually think when I’ve looked at functional programming languages, there’s a lot to love and then I see some of the crazy contortions they have to go through when part of the problem they’re solving calls for mutating something and you go like, “Holy shit, this is a great paradigm from 90% of the problem, and then you’re twisting yourself completely out of shape when you try to solve the last 10.” Ooh, Exalt beautiful code is the next one.…
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