I too have started down the fp router with ramda and ramda-adjunct.
Though other people at my work dislike it due to them not understanding what's going on
Though other people at my work dislike it due to them not understanding what's going on
I would want to program in functional too, but I would seek out projects or teams that already use functional. I’d never introduce a functional language to an already established team or project, unless of course, I was the CTO and there were clear benefits.
Agreed that functional patterns can be hard to understand if you don't know the patterns, but if you do know them they are much easier to understand and reason about the code. It's a long term investment, and one that frankly I believe will be inevitable as more and more people start doing programming work.
There's a lot of resistance to adopting anything with the name functional, and that resistance is often seen in a /refusal/ to try to understand instead of a mere lack of understanding: people put up walls straightaway. I expect many need motivating examples to guide them to it.
Languages like Kotlin are pointing the way towards that middle ground far more effectively than, say, Scala did.