Yep… I can say from personal experience that Scala and Clojure are becoming popular in the financial world.
There seem to be several drivers: the FP part appeals to the algo guys, immutability is attractive when looking at concurrency, and they can interop with the extensive existing Java codebase easier than some of the alternatives.
There seem to be several drivers: the FP part appeals to the algo guys, immutability is attractive when looking at concurrency, and they can interop with the extensive existing Java codebase easier than some of the alternatives.