My point was about barrier to entry. My experience is admittedly with Haskell rather than OCaml, but while I did get my head round these things to some degree,

My point was about barrier to entry. My experience is admittedly with Haskell rather than OCaml, but while I did get my head round these things to some degree, I was still a long way from being productive. And this is despite having come from a background of C++. The debate on static vs dynamic is a far from settled one, but I think you would be hard pressed make the case that Python has no place. In this case, I'm suggesting that Elixir is a great way of getting people into functional programming and learning the value, while being immensely useful in its own right. Learning that value is a good first step. I now find it immensely depressing every time I go from my Phoenix web-app back to the Android app. Kotlin is better than Java, but it's still a mess of objects and interfaces, and having to construct 5 things when it could just be passing a map to a function. The result is that I will now more aggressively pursue FP options when I'm looking at technology decisions (e.g. bucklescript is on my 'to investigate' list).