I'm not fond of functional languages. It isn't that I don't get why they are a really good idea (they are). I just can't stand the syntax, the lack of proper st

I'm not fond of functional languages. It isn't that I don't get why they are a really good idea (they are). I just can't stand the syntax, the lack of proper standard libraries, and the lack of mainstream-big-ecosystem'ness. Mainstream languages are nice because there is lots of code, documentation, discussion and I can find people I can talk to. And you can write real code in situations where you may not be the one to maintain it 10 years from now. Or 5. Or 2. Agentic coding changed that. A bit. I still dislike most functional languages because my brain doesn't work with their syntax, but these languages are REALLY good targets for agentic coding. I'm a backend developer who occasionally needs a frontend slapped onto something. So I have been through all the usual suspects. Angular, React, Vue. All terrible reminders of why I try to stay away from the frontend. Touch it and you roll around in tons of dysfunctional tooling, weird complexity and gimmicky mechanisms that are ridiculously fragile. It isn't just as if a bunch of cats wrote the code, but they are feral cats. And if you point out just how messy things are, they just hiss at you and piss on your shoes. And then I discovered Elm. Not only does it not crap all over my git repository, LLMs love Elm. Yes, it poops out a JS blob. But I don't have to look at it. I can just pick it up with my long tongs and drop it into my server using embed.FS in Go. Perhaps I should overcome my peculiarities and love Elm too. Anyway. Anything that can make Python go away I'm for. It is not for writing programs that will ever leave your workstation and be inflicted on others.