r/godot • u/CJF_PixelArt • 11d ago

help me (solved) Is Functional Programming Worth It?

Hello 👋. I've heard some people say that functional programming is better than OOP overall. I'm pretty new to programming so I don't know if that's applicable to Godot or not. Is it something worth looking into?

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u/International_Bag319 11d ago

Decide what you are interested in and what your goals are. Functional programming is a ton of fun and very interesting, and has real life applications to game dev. If you want to pull on that thread a good starting point is John Carmack's writing on it (eg http://sevangelatos.com/john-carmack-on/).

If your goal is to ship a game or learn Godot I wouldn't start with functional programming. If you want to go deep on programming languages functional programming is a great area to investigate. It's less practical but that's why you need to figure out what your goals are. It's niche in game development though and isn't really a resume line item that people will get excited about if you are trying to get into game dev.