This is a pretty dumb post, in which I argue that functional programming has a lot of the bad parts of libertarianism and a lot of the good parts:  Both ideologies strive to eliminate [the] state. (ok, dumb dad joke) Both ideologies are driven by a set of dogmatic axioms rather than a practical goal: Libertarianism wants to reduce the government because any involvement distorts free markets.

Erik Bernhardsson

A tongue-in-cheek analogy comparing functional programming to libertarianism, arguing both are dogma-driven ideologies that start from arbitrary axioms (eliminating state/government) rather than practical goals like programmer productivity. Despite this critique, the author concedes both are roughly 90% correct and that developers of any background can benefit from FP principles: writing pure functions, avoiding mutable state, and building data transformation pipelines.

Functional programming is the libertarianism of software engineering