Sorry, I think I was a bit unclear. I have no doubt the jvm can support a functional language - scala isn't bad and Kotlin looks really nice. My point is more t

Sorry, I think I was a bit unclear. I have no doubt the jvm can support a functional language - scala isn't bad and Kotlin looks really nice. My point is more that Java is constrained in how it can compete with functional jvm languages in much the same way c# is against functional clr ones. The linked article explains those limits a lot better than I could :)