The Many Paths Towards Functional Programming Language Adoption
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Claim: mainstream FP influence comes from frameworks not languages, with React Spark and Google JAX cited as examples; observable data shows Stack Overflow shows Scala under 1% and Rust at 0.2%, while surveys report ~60% develop on Windows and 51.2% deploy there. Tooling investment is concrete: 90 people building C# tooling at JetBrains. Concrete actions include improving Windows/SQL support, editor diagnostics, debuggers, profiling, notebooks, and hiring 40,000+ bootcamp juniors to grow adoption.
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- 0:00Start
- 2:35We have a problem
- 12:11Recall our strengths
- 15:21ecosystems do lots
- 23:38represent majority addressable markets
- 36:51advocate for good tooling
- 48:48functional programmers each
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