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Scala would be a fucking awesome mainstream language.

And it actually has a chance of achieving that, unlike Haskell/Erlang/Ocaml/whatever, because Blub developers can just use it as a better Java.

I think you would see JRuby used as an industry de facto before you would see Scala.

Why?

Nobody talked about F# here but it's clearly the CLR Next Language, and reasonably f&(*ing awesome; i.e. combines the Next Languageness of clojure, jruby, and scala from the JVM world. Invitably, people will raise the same "broad and deep syntax" complaints they level against scala

Clojure much bigger then Scala and F#.

http://www.indeed.com/jobtrends?q=F%23%2Cclojure%2Cscala&...

For sure clojure's a nice language with a lot of great lib creators , and the community will continue to grow strongly

The (+), (+'), "=" and "==" thing has started to bother peeps

http://groups.google.com/group/clojure/browse_frm/thread/59a...

http://groups.google.com/group/clojure/browse_frm/thread/506...

http://clojure-log.n01se.net/date/2011-01-25.html#09:58a

Holy shit,according to your chart it is even bigger than C and Java! How did this happen without anybody noticing?

http://www.indeed.com/jobtrends?q=F%23,clojure,scala,+C,+Jav...

But maybe this is just a result of comparing relative growth rates of job postings. If you take the time to a look at the percentage of matching job positions, then Scala is pretty dominant (compared to Clojure and F#) :D

I've looked at it and thought it looked like a very clean and (for a functional language) quite readable. But the ties to MS's VM dooms it IMO. If they made it cross platform (JVM and / or native compilation) and put it in third party hands, then it might stand a chance.

BUT, I can't see Joe Public programmer adopting a functional language, even one as nice as F#

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