Ah, indeed. Here's the conversation that convinced me: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7051611 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7051611 Given I was a

Ah, indeed. Here's the conversation that convinced me: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7051611 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7051611 Given I was already leaning in that direction, it wasn't hard to be convinced. Haskell was never really an option though because of libraries (and I'm not sold on Haskell anyway), so it led me to F# and Scala, both of which I "ideally" liked a lot. But lack of tooling and 3rd-party code, long compilation times, and obvious minority status on their respective VMs (e.g. nulls show up where the language wouldn't allow them) eventually drove me back to C# and Java. I don't like these languages quite as much, but all-told, when you throw in the ecosystem concerns, it seems like these are the languages that have the least friction against "just getting stuff done", and the ones I'm most productive in. For now at least.