Mirah is my favorite programming language for the JVM <full stop> I've long wondered why someone didn't take the learnings from the Ruby/Python languages and f

Mirah is my favorite programming language for the JVM <full stop> I've long wondered why someone didn't take the learnings from the Ruby/Python languages and from the functional languages, built a lovely little syntax and stuck it on the JVM. [Instead, we get Scala...] [Note: I really want to learn Clojure, but it's a little far from my day-to-day to focus on right now]. From mirah.org: In general, Mirah could be seen as a "Ruby with static types" So Mirah is Ruby + static types + type inference! You get the clean syntax of Ruby with the terseness of scripting and/or type-inferred functional languages with the performance of a compiled language. It's like peanut butter + chocolate + bacon + Himalayan pink salt.