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To have the equivalent outside the .net world, there could be a Ocaml for JVM, that would allow to fall back to a ecosystem of libraries and toolchains. I think there have been some experiments to do that, but not a finished one to my knowledge.


I think Scala is the main functional offering for JVM, no?

Although with C#'s the direction of travel (bringing in pattern matching, record types, etc.) I reckon C# and F# will end up more like Scala and OCaml, rather than Java and OCaml.


Yep, but Scala is pretty different from Ocaml/F#/Haskell.


Only on the surface :-) the semantics have deep similarities to many aspects of the ML-derived languages.




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