Domain Modeling Made Functional
Domain Modeling Made Functional by Scott Wlaschinby Scott Wlaschin
Shares rank 30 of 115 programming books by recommenders
People recommend it as a clear, practical guide to domain-driven design, with examples that changed how some readers write object-oriented code.
People recommend it as a clear, practical guide to domain-driven design, with examples that changed how some readers write object-oriented code.
6 people gave an opinion
- recommend it
- 6
- criticize it
- 0
- approval share
- 100%
Recommended in 5 of 13 months
- November 2025: recommended
- December 2025: not recommended
- January 2026: recommended
- February 2026: recommended
- March 2026: not recommended
- April 2026: recommended
- May 2026: recommended
- June 2026: not recommended
- July 2026: not recommended
- August 2026: not recommended
- September 2026: not recommended
- October 2026: not recommended
- November 2026: not recommended (month in progress)
Why it doesn’t carry the badge
- 6 people recommend itNeeds 10 or more, not met.
- Nobody criticizes itNeeds 2 to 1 or better, met.
- Recommended in 5 of 13 monthsNeeds 4 or more, met.
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What people say about it
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Why people recommend it
Each mark is one comment
One of the best books read
“one of the best books I’ve read on domain driven design”
Comment from 10 Feb 2026 in “F# 10” “one of the best books I've read about programming”
Comment from 25 Nov 2025 in “Fifty Shades of OOP”
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| Crafting Interpretersby Robert Nystrom | 60 | 4 | 94% | 10 | — | Approved |
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| How to Design Programsby Matthias Felleisen and Robert Bruce Findler and Matthew Flatt and Shriram Krishnamurthi | 18 | 2 | 90% | 7 | — | Approved |
| Domain Modeling Made Functionalby Scott WlaschinThis page | 6 | 0 | 100% | 5 | — | — |
What people said
6 of the 7 comments that mention it, newest first. Each links to the original comment.
“It really starts at the basics that I think Coalton sort of assumes you understand already.”
“Buy his book - it's great and exactly like that.”
“one of the best books I’ve read on domain driven design”
“There is one talk for his book "Domain Modeling Made Functional" which, if I remember, was very clear and easy to follow.”
“one of the best books I've read about programming”
“He provides some compelling examples and some of it ended up inspiring how I write OO code.”
Counts come from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026. How we count. Report a mistake.