I'm not sure those are the things holding FP back. The statement "The user experiences of functional programming languages sucks." sounds really weird and is th

I'm not sure those are the things holding FP back. The statement "The user experiences of functional programming languages sucks." sounds really weird and is the exact opposite of my experience. I write Elixir professionally. The developer experience is unparalleled and I definitely wouldn't trade it for a job writing Java 9 to 5. Maybe it's trying to refer to stuffs such as existing libraries and package management etc. when you want to quickly boot up a real-world project. I once tried to write some web app in Haskell and that experience definitely was anything but smooth. Fortunately Elixir has a really vibrant community and libraries for the majority of common tasks (plus 20+ years of Erlang ecosystem). It's also really easy to roll your own solutions. I don't think the issues of IDE support and parameter ordering mentioned in this article are problems to FP programmers at all. Powerful language servers exist nowadays for all major functional languages and they're not that different from language servers for OO languages. So yeah I tend to agree with a lot of commentators that this article doesn't seem to make much sense unfortunately.