“Since around 2007 strongly-typed functional programming has shifted from relative obscurity to be a central paradigm in programming. C#, Java, C++, Scala, Kotl

“Since around 2007 strongly-typed functional programming has shifted from relative obscurity to be a central paradigm in programming. C#, Java, C++, Scala, Kotlin, Swift, Rust and TypeScript now all include elements of strongly-typed FP, and Apple executives extolled functional features at the launch of Swift in 2014, including pattern matching, generics, option types, type inference, tuples and closures, something unthinkable in 2005.93 Haskell, F# and OCaml have all grown in use, and newcomers such as Elm and ReasonML are also finding good adoption.” I feel like we’ve taken the long way to popularize functional programming.