C# is closer to Scala than to Java these days. The type system might not be that advanced but there are value types, nice generics, proper annotations etc., and

C# is closer to Scala than to Java these days. The type system might not be that advanced but there are value types, nice generics, proper annotations etc., and there is quite a bit of syntax sugar with more coming: https://roslyn.codeplex.com/wikipage?title=Language%20Feature%20Status&referringTitle=Documentation https://roslyn.codeplex.com/wikipage?title=Language%20Featur... PS: quite sure at least some corps are tackling Scala, Ruby is quite good for glorified web dev which is most of modern start-ups.