> functional languages get an amount of attention disproportionate to their usage and even this article is example - using js wouldn't get to the top of hn Jav

> functional languages get an amount of attention disproportionate to their usage and even this article is example - using js wouldn't get to the top of hn JavaScript topics do make it to the front of HN. For example, https://github.com/getify/You-Dont-Know-JS https://github.com/getify/You-Dont-Know-JS was the top article on June 24. If you mean that simply writing about using JavaScript without any particular angle probably wouldn't make it to the front page, you're right. But that's actually proportionate to the two languages' usage. It's similar to how "I drank some water" is less interesting than "I drank a rare Japanese whiskey" — absent of context, they're equivalent, but because everyone has done the former, the fact that you did it too is boring on its own.