> "TBH if you've developed software in the past ten years, it's unlikely you haven't been hugely affected by what the FP community has been doing."
Apart from HN / reddit bubble, not many people know about FP, and not to imply that's their fault. FP is still weird, difficult for mere mortals, and ivory tower elitism is holding some of its useful ideas back.
Well, most Portuguese students with university degree in Informatics happen to have been exposed to FP and LP during their 5 year degree (or 3 + 2 as they usually do it nowadays).
Given that most HR departments still value having a degree, that is still quite a bit of people, specially if one extrapolates to other countries that share similar attitude to universities and HR hiring practices.
Half of those things aren't even specific to FP. And I bet most people don't even use pattern matching outside HN / reddit bubble, not to say it isn't cool.
Apart from HN / reddit bubble, not many people know about FP, and not to imply that's their fault. FP is still weird, difficult for mere mortals, and ivory tower elitism is holding some of its useful ideas back.