Looking at functional languages helped me understand the point of all a little better, to the point where I write completely different imperative code now. I'm

Looking at functional languages helped me understand the point of all a little better, to the point where I write completely different imperative code now. I'm much better at reducing state, leveraging static calls / libs etc.. But I'll probably never use a functional language in production. The Rust borrowchecker is an awesome idea, I don't quite like Rust and don't want to use it, but I'm excited for the concept to be introduced into established or newer languages - and it helped me reason about my own programs a little bit. Even beyond personal curiosity, that was time well spent.