[jfoutz]

Evolution is slow. Java imho brought garbage collection to the mainstream. lisp had been doing that for 20 years or so.

I don't think Haskell itself will ever be the language of choice, it'll probably fall into (remain in?) a smalltalk like life.

That said, functional idioms seem to be creeping into lots of mainstream languages, so it's not like never. Rust seems pretty heavily influenced by ml, and somewhat by haskell.

[tdeck]

Only on Hacker News is Rust considered a mainstream language, but I see your point :).

[jfoutz]

Ha! Totally agree. I do think rust has a lot of potential to take a big bite out of c/c++'s current share. But that's 10 years away, because evolution is slow.