Some interesting mentions here. I tend to follow mostly people who talk about statically-typed functional programming. Some people who I believe stand out becau

Some interesting mentions here. I tend to follow mostly people who talk about statically-typed functional programming. Some people who I believe stand out because they changed the game in some way: * Dan Grossman for his amazing, succinct explanations of static typing and functional programming concepts in Standard ML * Philip Wadler for his work on Haskell * Miles Sabin for freeing Scala developers from fixed arities with shapeless * Jordan Walke for React (put immutable and reactive programming in every JS dev's hands) and Reason (bringing OCaml to JS devs) * Erik Meijer for putting monads (LINQ) in C# * Evan Czaplicki for bringing functional reactive programming to JavaScript devs.