I believe we are limited by our own experience, a lot of software is built upon the idea that problems are solved through procedural steps rather than a series of transformations.
This does not lend itself to thinking in a way that aligns nicely with functional programming.
Future generations will naturally think in ways unfathomable to you and I, and this will cause a shift in the fundamental approaches to software development.
I believe functional programming advocates when you guys say it works better. But I only believe it works better for you. In my experience there’s a minority of people who find functional programming to be a powerful paradigm shift but for most developers functional programming either doesn’t resonate or resonates at the level of an academic exercise that helps you think better about writing code but best remains an academic exercise.
My two favorite languages these days are Clojure and Elixir. Currently mostly Clojure because my main side project is more amenable to Clojure's methods of concurrency than Elixir.
I think that the procedural programming is much more common because of the academic and work experience of many programmers. Functional programming is a transition of the way of thinking that seems not worth it. But after I got my hands dirty, I found myself writing much more clean and consistent code in every language. I enjoyed particularly Clojure because has a good ecosystem and tools, and also take some design decisions to steer you for a more robust code. https://clojure.org/about/functional_programming#_immutable_...
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