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It seems that way because it kind of is. The early days of functional research were equally focused on designing alternative computer architectures that were more suited to functional paradigms.

Now that hardware angle has not been very successful on the whole, and we are left with languages that end up feeling a bit out of place on the hardware we have today.

Another thing to note is that there is a lot of untapped potential in fb compilers. It’s suffering from underinvestment.