Sure, I wasn’t really asking permission to prefer functional languages. I’m just a bit confused to why everyone on HN seems to prefer imperative languages, and

Sure, I wasn’t really asking permission to prefer functional languages. I’m just a bit confused to why everyone on HN seems to prefer imperative languages, and it’s not quite as simple as preference. If an imperative procedural language gets popular, that affects the job market. It seems like every job now requires a million years of Go experience. That’s fine, times change, but it just feels like the wrong direction. Personally I was more rooting for Rust or Swift becoming the lingua Franca.