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Scala

• seanmcdirmid 7y ago
  There is a lot of merit in just using Scala as a better Java, in fact a lot of its original popularity was that kind of adoption. These days, however, Kotlin is eating that cake, so maybe it's true now?
  • incompatible 7y ago
    I'd prefer something that compiled to machine code anyway. Scala also has type erasure unpleasantness due to its dependence on JVM.
    • seanmcdirmid 7y ago
      Type erasure isn't just a JVM implementation detail. Haskell, for example, has no JVM dependency and relies solely on type erasure (a running program can't introspect type information). Not reifying types at run-time (in this case type parameters) is a legitimate implementation decision as reification has non-trivial costs.
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• yen223 7y ago
  Depending on how loosely you want to define "functional", I'd argue Javascript is more popular.