There is a lot more demand for tasks that FP is good at such as data processing where state is a means to an end, and hence the program can be stateless. Contr

There is a lot more demand for tasks that FP is good at such as data processing where state is a means to an end, and hence the program can be stateless. Contrast this with the 90s were we needed to write user interfaces where state was the point, or C++ gamedev.