[shepbook]

Given you'd like to focus on functional languages and you'd also like to be productive enough to build and monetize apps as an individual, you might like and want to look into Elixir and Elm.

Elm is a nice functional frontend language that compiles to JS, which you'll need for web apps.

Elixir is a very good and solid functional backend language that is good for general purpose programming, as well as web app programming (via Phoenix) and embedded (via Nerves).

Both of those languages are functional and focused on developer productivity and have some very good tooling around them.

[behnamoh]

Thanks. I had just heard their names before, but now I'm thinking maybe the combination of Elm+Elixir would suit my needs. Some other people have also suggested Elm here, didn't know why.