Rich Hickey's: Are We There Yet may be interesting to any one here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ScEPu1cs4l0

I found this to be one of the more interesting talks I've watched.

Like you (I think) - I love functional languages.

But there's a problem I can't really figure out how to articulate where they reach a level where they stop "just working" imo. Maybe it's just me being too dumb.