For the same reason most functional languages never took off, they look succinct, but come back to your code in 6 months and its like a war zone. Also not to me

For the same reason most functional languages never took off, they look succinct, but come back to your code in 6 months and its like a war zone. Also not to mention the fact that if you start writing your code base in a niche language that few people want to write in, then it will be very difficult to recruit and you're stuck with a codebase no one wants to write in, you might as well write in Cobol.