I think for me the appeal is that just that all the big brain programming language research seems to happen in weird new functional languages. I assume they're just a better petri dish for experimenting with weird shit, or maybe they come up with all the weird shit to be able to get things done in the Haskell-du-jour, or maybe weird shit just gets branded as functional programming by default. (These days the fp people always talk about linear types, or effects, or other things that don't seem to involve functions at all, idk what's up with that...)
I assume that all of this gets funding because ten years later it makes C# programmers more productive, not because of mass appeal.
I assume that all of this gets funding because ten years later it makes C# programmers more productive, not because of mass appeal.