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> I wish there was a good ML-style language for the JVM.

github.com/Frege and eta-lang.org may be tried out

I had looked at Frege, but it doesn't seem to have the same traction as other functional languages.

Counting on github returns about 10k for each F# and Ocaml, about 60k for Haskell, and 100k for Scala, but about < 200 for Frege.

Yeah compared to .NET there's nothing ML-ish in the F# ballpark (in terms of push/community/basic corporate support = "traction") for the JVM afaik.

True in the sense that Scala has a magnitude higher number of repos, commercial adoption, libraries, than F# (while being much closer to ML than F# in a few important was).

Whoops, my bad, the only faint idea about ML I do have is as the "MotherLode" from what I know of modern-day F# / Haskell --- never looked at Scala so far

That then should be the actual answer to OP's question

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