[progman]

Why do you abhor elitism? It's elitism (not group thinking) which yields progress. For instance, da Vinci, Newton, Einstein, etc. and all the Nobel price winners were all outstanding elitists.

> If something is truly worth it, it should be accessible to the "masses"

OCaml is accessible to the masses, for 10-20 years already.

I doubt that the masses will switch to FP languages (OCaml, Haskell, Lisp, ...) ever since the classical lightweight languages (Javascript, PHP, ...) provide anything they need for their basic stuff. Only few need more, and they have free choice of several nice niche languages which don't need to become mainstream.

[oblio]

> Why do you abhor elitism? It's elitism (not group thinking) which yields progress. For instance, da Vinci, Newton, Einstein, etc. and all the Nobel price winners were all outstanding elitists.

We're here because of mass progress, not because of a few "chosen people". The "great man" theory of history fell by the wayside a one century ago.

[progman]

> We're here because of mass progress

What is "mass progress"? There are two options: a) let the masses learn to use the inventions of individualists (which happened with C/C++, PHP and Python for instance), or b) let the inventions be customized to the mediocre capabilities of the masses.

You want option b), obviously. I wouldn't call that "progress".