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as a whole, interest in it comes in waves, but it never seems to make it to the mainstream.

Many mainstream ideas are incubated in the fp world, and wind up in the mainstream. for exmaple: GC, closures, higher order functions. but not any of the "functional programming languages" themselves.



What you're describing is literally FP ideas and abstractions going mainstream


uhh...yeah, i thought i was clear on that?


Sounded like you were disagreeing with me on that when you said

> but it never seems to make it to the mainstream




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