Okay, I got really confused by this whole mandatory thing. I never said FP should be mandatory at scale. I said it had a moderate benefit at scale. You respond with "well actually, it's not mandatory at Google-scale" so I assumed that you were trying to refute the fact that FP has benefit at scale.
You also followed this up with
> The kind of problems that emerge at scale are not the kind of problems FP tackles.
I cherry picked these examples to demonstrate that you're completely talking out of your ass here.
> I didn’t say it is impossible to do X with FP - I said it is not necessary to do X in FP. You can convince yourself of that by looking for larger-scale non-FP counter-examples to the ones you've cherry-picked.
I never said it wasn't possible to tackle these problems without FP.
You need to get rid or the assumption that "if X is better than Y at task Z, everyone will use X rather than Y for task Z". You've used that line of logic to attempt to invalidate FP's capabilities. It simply does not make sense.
You also followed this up with
> The kind of problems that emerge at scale are not the kind of problems FP tackles.
I cherry picked these examples to demonstrate that you're completely talking out of your ass here.
> I didn’t say it is impossible to do X with FP - I said it is not necessary to do X in FP. You can convince yourself of that by looking for larger-scale non-FP counter-examples to the ones you've cherry-picked.
I never said it wasn't possible to tackle these problems without FP.
You need to get rid or the assumption that "if X is better than Y at task Z, everyone will use X rather than Y for task Z". You've used that line of logic to attempt to invalidate FP's capabilities. It simply does not make sense.