Comment by agentultra

Sometimes just using the language the majority of folks enjoy working in is fine.

You get programming astronauts in every language. There’s nothing special about Gooby or functional programmers that makes them deficient in the ways described. You could easily replace Gooby with Rust, Lisp, Python, C++, C#, Java, JS.

What makes the functional programming astronauts stand out is pure optics. If you’re tolerant of C++ templates or Python’s metaclasses you might view discussions on Profunctors to sound like gibberish. If you’re not someone who even uses those tools at all and avoid them out of principal it can sound like a plot for a hostile takeover. To an experienced Haskell programmer it’s likely to be fairly banal.

Which kind of blows this whole theory that Gooby programmers are the problem.

The real problem are those who seek to use a hammer regardless of what problem they’re trying to solve. I’m certain anyone whose been around for a while had encountered the “patterns astronaut,” who will view every problem as an opportunity to figure out how to apply as many GoF patterns as possible. These are the misguided souls we need to bring back into the fold.