[shados]

it trickles down, slowly. Facebook does it, then SV companies do it, then tech companies globally do it, then everyone else.

Always goes that way.

[pjmlp]

Not always, hence why you get to situations like that car repair shop in Poland using a C64 to manage their businesses.

As language geek I dabble in every language I can put my hands on.

Yet when it comes to work, it is always Java, C#, JavaScript, C++, SQL, because that is what RFPs allow for.

[shados]

oh good lord are we pedantic. Yes, not everyone uses the same techs. All i'm trying to say is that we'll see more and more of it.

It's already happening with Elm, Elixir, etc.

[pjmlp]

No, just not everyone lives on Silicon Valley, or cool cities with startups.

There are zero jobs for Elm, Elixir, .... where I live.

[dllthomas]

The parent claimed "Elm, Elixer, ..." were the future of the industry. You seem to be asserting that they are not the present.

[pjmlp]

I am asserting most of us across the world, work in boring companies whose main business is not software development and don't use such languages and never will, yes.

[dllthomas]

You had only been asserting "don't use such languages", you hadn't really got to "and never will". And I don't know whether I disagree, but you've certainly not made a case for it.