It virtue-signals that they're part of the hip functional crowd.
(To be fair, if you are programming functionally, it is essential. But to flat-out state that a language that doesn't support isn't "serious" is a bit rude, at best.)
Supporting recursion only to a depth of 1000 (or whatever) is equivalent to supporting loops of up to 1000 iterations.
If I put out a language that crashed after 1000 iterations of a loop, I'd welcome the rudeness.
Supporting recursion only to a depth of 1000 (or whatever) is equivalent to supporting loops of up to 1000 iterations.
If I put out a language that crashed after 1000 iterations of a loop, I'd welcome the rudeness.