There's so many idiots in the AI space that are completely ignorant of how Machine Learning works. The worst are the grifters that fearmonger about AI safety by regurgitating singularity memes.
We use Clojure at my work and it's basically functional Java with parens. No snottiness or evangelism needed. The fact that I don't have to write Java OOP boilerplate is a big enough advantage to me. Even if you just write it like Python or JS, it's still leagues better.