You might want to try out CoffeeScript with contracts: http://disnetdev.com/contracts.coffee/ http://disnetdev.com/contracts.coffee/ Compiles to beautiful Jav

You might want to try out CoffeeScript with contracts: http://disnetdev.com/contracts.coffee/ http://disnetdev.com/contracts.coffee/ Compiles to beautiful JavaScript and gives programmers the ability to check types at compile-type. If you've never used it, I'd compare CoffeeScript to an amalgam of Ruby and Python, with a little Haskell thrown in (take a look at how you specify contracts, for example). If you like functional programming, you'll love CoffeeScript: ['fizz' unless i%3] + ['buzz' unless i%5] or i for i in [1..100] (fizzbuzz one-liner from http://ricardo.cc/2011/06/02/10-CoffeeScript-One-Liners-to-Impress-Your-Friends.html http://ricardo.cc/2011/06/02/10-CoffeeScript-One-Liners-to-I...)