F#: the syntactic power and delicious type system of OCaml combined with the coding ease of Python, all the best of modern C#, a runtime that's essentially a fi

F#: the syntactic power and delicious type system of OCaml combined with the coding ease of Python, all the best of modern C#, a runtime that's essentially a first rate JVM clone, all wrapped up an packaged by one of the better dev tool suppliers... It hits a real sweet spot for Enterprise coding, domain modeling, scientific computing, and cloud computing. It's the only way I'll touch legacy MS-ecosystem projects. The community is driven by open source and highly cross platform. It's also got type-checked scripting that makes 'plumbing languages' and utility scripts look second rate, for pragmatic day to day stuff, while maintaining complete access to the libraries and models of any of your systems. Potent stuff for people whose technical decisions are regulated (or even just subject to Enterprise Thinking by Important People).