Plenty of people use functional languages in the wild, though sometimes, like Jane Street, they don't do it for the same reasons that are normally stated as bei

Plenty of people use functional languages in the wild, though sometimes, like Jane Street, they don't do it for the same reasons that are normally stated as being the reasons functional programming is better. This is a good video, from Jane Street, on why they use OCaml: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kZ1P8cHN3pY&t=109s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kZ1P8cHN3pY&t=109s