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What a bizarre criticism. Most of the newer popular functional languages aren't implemented in those, but rather Java, and for the same reason given in the read

What a bizarre criticism. Most of the newer popular functional languages aren't implemented in those, but rather Java, and for the same reason given in the readme for Go.

haggy 8y ago
> Most of the newer popular functional languages aren't implemented in those, but rather Java Well, that's not entirely correct. I assume you mean they run on the JVM? Language like scala are actually written IN scala. The only thing that is in java is the interpreter but the entire compiler is scala.
- Blackthorn 8y ago
  True enough for Scala, but Clojure has plenty of Java code.
  - phyrex 8y ago
    OTOH clojure script is completely written in clojurescript
vmchale 8y ago
> Most of the newer popular functional languages aren't implemented in those, but rather Java, I don't think this is true. Java is not a good language for compilers in any case, and it would cause me to trust the language less, especially if they were claiming it was a "functional programming language"
- angara 8y ago
  > Java is not a good language for compilers Could you elaborate?