> Functional languages are great toys but nobody uses them to get work done, almost without exception.
Just because you don’t use functional languages for serious commercial work and don’t personally know anybody who does, doesn’t mean the rest of us don’t too. Plenty of us use functional languages for serious commercial work, now or in the past. I’ve persobally used ClonureScript and know plenty of people who use Clojure. I know people who use Haskell. Jane Street famously use OCaml. Lots of people use Scala. Clearly an IBM team uses Elm. I mean, the article itself is a counter example to your statement.
Just because you don’t use functional languages for serious commercial work and don’t personally know anybody who does, doesn’t mean the rest of us don’t too. Plenty of us use functional languages for serious commercial work, now or in the past. I’ve persobally used ClonureScript and know plenty of people who use Clojure. I know people who use Haskell. Jane Street famously use OCaml. Lots of people use Scala. Clearly an IBM team uses Elm. I mean, the article itself is a counter example to your statement.