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by rak1507 1683 days ago
Pure FP languages may be less popular/common, that doesn't mean FP ideas are harder to understand. In stackoverflow's developer survey https://insights.stackoverflow.com/survey/2021 Clojure was the second most 'popular' language after Rust, and you could argue Rust draws heavily from FP styles too. Languages that are unquestionably OO or procedural, like Java and C, scored lower.