Well, and the corollary, that's why your typical engineer doesn't get it - and anyone who really insists on it is just a lunatic; adopting it would be a nightmare to the average workaday developer who just wants to have the compiler tell him/her what to do...
My team used to be a Java shop, we adopted Clojure around a decade ago and never looked back. Not really sure what this whole compiler telling the developer what to do is supposed to mean to be honest. One of the advantages of using a Lisp is that you get immediate feedback from the compiler as you're writing code via the REPL driven workflow. https://vvvvalvalval.github.io/posts/what-makes-a-good-repl....
