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What are the ergonomics-first languages of the functional world?

• The_rationalist 7y ago
  I would say that rust and kotlin are good at providing most of the useful concepts from functional programming (higher order functions, common functors (map, filter, etc), tail call, pattern matching, destructuring, expressions, lazy evaluation, immutable collections, actor model, algebraic data types) Sadly they lack some features at the type system level (higher kinded types, intersection and union types) TypeScript do a better job at it but lack some other features (pattern matching).
  • pkolaczk 7y ago
    Looks like the language you wanted to mention is Scala. Pragmatic and has all the things you mentioned.
  • kod 7y ago
    Kotlin doesn't have destructuring pattern matching.
• twic 7y ago
  LISPers would say LISP.
• kazinator 7y ago
  TXR Lisp, for one.