Hang on, you're being a little unfair about this. I believe in what I said. I think FP is a great step forwards and I think it's going to win out. I'm biased because I think this.

But Google is worth billions of dollars and is succeeding wildly at innovating and changing the world, and I'm a lone developer. I can't very well stand here and tell Google, "hey you billionaire company, you're doing it all wrong; I've got the magic bullet right here."

Part of the dichotomy is whether to define success as financial wealth or as some kind of more abstract software quality. And I think that's a legitimate variable; if Google is wealthy but has lower-quality software for it, then they and I just have different priorities.

I stand for my opinion by investing all of my spare time into FP language development and research, but until I see a billion-dollar company using it, I'm not going to call anyone a loser for choosing Java.