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"you didn't mention Scala" my hypothesis (and it is only that) is that trying to unite FP and OO, as Scala tries to do, leads to unnecessary complexity in lear

"you didn't mention Scala" my hypothesis (and it is only that) is that trying to unite FP and OO, as Scala tries to do, leads to unnecessary complexity in learning and usage. Also see 'tooling'. That said, many impressive + widely deployed systems have been built with Scala, which is more than other typed FP languages can claim.

pjmlp 8y ago
OCaml also tries to unite FP and OO, it is right there on its name.
- lmm 8y ago
  Yes and no. It's possible to ignore the OO features and use OCaml purely as a functional language, in a way that you can't really do in Scala.