I think you will find Scala relatively easy to learn since most Haskell concepts have Scala equivalents. If you want something much more Haskell-like on the JV

I think you will find Scala relatively easy to learn since most Haskell concepts have Scala equivalents. If you want something much more Haskell-like on the JVM, check out Frege https://github.com/Frege/frege https://github.com/Frege/frege