From my perspective the Haskell community is fairly active and growing. At the moment #haskell has 1100 users tying #python and easily beating out ##c, #c++, #clojure, #lisp, #java, #javascript, and #ruby on Freenode.
John Carmack is exploring functional programming[0], and this is Randall Munroe's second functional programming comic in recent weeks.
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[ 2.8 ms ] story [ 12.2 ms ] threadJohn Carmack is exploring functional programming[0], and this is Randall Munroe's second functional programming comic in recent weeks.
[0]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1PhArSujR_A
[1]: https://xkcd.com/1270/
http://xkcd.com/224/