Another JVM language, Haskell dialect Eta, has arrived on the scene, again centering on functional programming. Intended for building scalable systems, Eta is a strongly typed functional language.

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The world of Java application development is not restricted to just the core Java language and the Java Enterprise Edition platform. The Java virtual machine (JVM) is host to a variety of other ...

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One more than one occasion, I’ve found myself yearning for a more functional paradigm that facilitates easier concurrency programming on the JVM. And while Erlang is an excellent platform for ...

Languages that run on the Java Virtual Machine have lined up well with mobile app developers, alongside the usual code suspects. JavaScript, Java, Python, PHP and C# top RedMonk's latest list of ...