Declaring Functional programming as the rescue at the very end of the post is just not right. FP will gain you something in particular programming requirements

Declaring Functional programming as the rescue at the very end of the post is just not right. FP will gain you something in particular programming requirements while being just wrong in others. Looking back now on 25 years in software development, plain old imperative programming still bought me the most in terms of getting stuff done (Banana problem). With a decent set of standardisation and sane language defaults a mostly imperative approach will get you very far. Golang hits that sweet spot very decently for me. Missing type generalisations are an impediment from times to times though.