The Scala community is more of a blend on this front. It has FP aficionados, but it's also in production use and has commercial contributors focusing on practical issues. If Scala continues to gain popularity, it will probably continue to get more of a practical focus (there are only so many FP geeks in the world).
The other thing with Scala is that it compiles to bytecode; once compiled, it's just Java. And you can always use any Java library. So there's that base of a very solid JVM runtime and very solid ecosystem of libraries that's always there.
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The Scala community is more of a blend on this front. It has FP aficionados, but it's also in production use and has commercial contributors focusing on practical issues. If Scala continues to gain popularity, it will probably continue to get more of a practical focus (there are only so many FP geeks in the world).
The other thing with Scala is that it compiles to bytecode; once compiled, it's just Java. And you can always use any Java library. So there's that base of a very solid JVM runtime and very solid ecosystem of libraries that's always there.