Many Python fans have longed for the language to adopt functional programming features. Now they can get those features without having to switch to a new Python implementation. Coconut, a newly ...

I mean, “functional programming”¹ isn’t exactly well-defined, ... of non-Haskell languages ranging from frontend programming in JavaScript to backend code in OCaml to simulations in Python.

The open source Futhark makes it easier to program for GPUs that speed up machine learning and other math-intensive apps ...

Python makes it easy to define functions but also incorporates a surprising number of features from functional programming languages. This chapter describes the basic mechanisms associated with Python ...