I would expect you're right that functional languages get more coverage than they would warrant based on usage, at least in industry and the startup scene. I w

I would expect you're right that functional languages get more coverage than they would warrant based on usage, at least in industry and the startup scene. I was referring more to people dismissing the benefits of functional programming as they dismiss the benefits of strictly typed and compiled languages. Many of the benefits of functional are the result of restrictions far more 'onerous' than knowing the type of an object at compile time. Those 'restrictions' make you think about your code more carefully and catch huge classes of bugs. Using strings to access object properties in JS (to me) feels like shenanigans.