"Eating the world"? Methinks a little bit of exaggeration/echo chamber effect at play, here. http://langpop.com/ http://langpop.com/ Coldfusion, of all thing

"Eating the world"? Methinks a little bit of exaggeration/echo chamber effect at play, here. http://langpop.com/ http://langpop.com/ Coldfusion, of all things, ranks ahead of the first pure functional language on that list (Haskell). Scala, the next highest impure but strongly functional language, ranks behind Visual Basic and Delphi. Or, from another (more recently updated) source: http://www.tiobe.com/index.php/content/paperinfo/tpci/index.html http://www.tiobe.com/index.php/content/paperinfo/tpci/index.... Note, not a single functional language in the top 20. Haskell ranks in at #44. Scala, #30. Don't let the Hacker News bubble fool you: FP is still extremely niche. At best, I'd claim we're seeing an increase traditional imperative languages that make it possible to utilize functional idioms, and mixed environments where you can combine functional and imperative code (think Java/Clojure or C#/F#) while taking advantage of existing software ecosystems. But in that case, it's more about sprinkling in functional approaches here and there, rather than completely drinking the kool-aid.