Long term job and total comp prospects. Having done tacked on FP in Node.js (Fantasy Land, Sanctuary, Ramda) and Scala (scalaz, cats) for quite some time and now programming in "proper" FP languages like PureScript and Haskell daily, I absolutely love life as a programmer.
However, having a decent sized family with deep roots, wanting to do college for my children as a sole earner, not living near a tech-hub of any sort, I come away with this wish list -- and I have to sustain for 20 to 30 years. ~150k TC, remote, FP languages, for the net 20 to 30 years. Seems like a tall order. We could add up all the FP Scala, FP JS, Clojure, Rust, Haskell, PureScript, Elm, OCaml, ML, etc gigs and it would be a sliver compared to the prospects of just picking the same list with just any of the other top 10 languages.
I could hop into a remote Node.js/Scala gig and slowly sell them on FP, but having done this for the past few years it gets a bit draining to fight over small FP items when you are ready to do so much more.
However, having a decent sized family with deep roots, wanting to do college for my children as a sole earner, not living near a tech-hub of any sort, I come away with this wish list -- and I have to sustain for 20 to 30 years. ~150k TC, remote, FP languages, for the net 20 to 30 years. Seems like a tall order. We could add up all the FP Scala, FP JS, Clojure, Rust, Haskell, PureScript, Elm, OCaml, ML, etc gigs and it would be a sliver compared to the prospects of just picking the same list with just any of the other top 10 languages.
I could hop into a remote Node.js/Scala gig and slowly sell them on FP, but having done this for the past few years it gets a bit draining to fight over small FP items when you are ready to do so much more.