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Re:Ko – A concurrent, immutable, functional language by Blackthorn on Thursday December 06, 2018 @12:10PM (#18619863)
What a bizarre criticism. Most of the newer popular functional languages aren't implemented in those, but rather Java, and for the same reason given in the readme for Go.
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Re:Ko – A concurrent, immutable, functional language by haggy on Thursday December 06, 2018 @12:27PM (#18620088)
> Most of the newer popular functional languages aren't implemented in those, but rather Java

Well, that's not entirely correct. I assume you mean they run on the JVM? Language like scala are actually written IN scala. The only thing that is in java is the interpreter but the entire compiler is scala.

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Re:Ko – A concurrent, immutable, functional language by Blackthorn on Thursday December 06, 2018 @01:06PM (#18620457)
True enough for Scala, but Clojure has plenty of Java code.
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Re:Ko – A concurrent, immutable, functional language by phyrex on Thursday December 06, 2018 @01:24PM (#18620629)
OTOH clojure script is completely written in clojurescript
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Re:Ko – A concurrent, immutable, functional language by vmchale on Thursday December 06, 2018 @01:44PM (#18620813)
> Most of the newer popular functional languages aren't implemented in those, but rather Java,

I don't think this is true. Java is not a good language for compilers in any case, and it would cause me to trust the language less, especially if they were claiming it was a "functional programming language"

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Re:Ko – A concurrent, immutable, functional language by angara on Thursday December 06, 2018 @02:41PM (#18621322)
> Java is not a good language for compilers

Could you elaborate?

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