[mortyseinfeld]

It's useful for any language/framework, whether it's verbose or not.

The benefits of functional languages tend to not be as great as they could be because the tooling sucks (or kind of sucks). Look at Scala. The IDEs sucked for years. That's changed recently, but it was a big problem for adoption. F# is similar. Although support is baked into Visual Studio these days, the IDE support is spartan to say the least compared to C# with resharper.

There seems to be a class of developers that have a hard time understanding the enormous productivity boosts that good tooling provides.

[mateuszf]

I've heard that Clojure support is good in most popular IDEs/editors.