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I take your point about mastery. Especially FP, where it's very clear that mastery of it is extremely powerful. On the other hand, there are some like our regular synchronization primitives where not even mastery will save you. Even experienced developers will make mistakes and find them harder to deal with than other higher-level abstractions. Where CPS fits on this curve, I don't know. I feel pretty confident about where FP and Mutexes sit. But I have yet to see something where I feel I'd rather use CPS than an async stream result.

>>moomin+(OP)
> Especially FP, where it's very clear that mastery of it is extremely powerful. On the other hand, there are some like our regular synchronization primitives where not even mastery will save you.

This alludes to my biggest frustration with FP... it solves problems and should be more widely used. But by the time people are exposed to it, they've been doing imperative programming since grade school. It's harder for FP to be successful developing critical mass in that setting.

At least, this is my theory of the case. I'd love counter examples or suggestions to make the situation better.