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Honestly, no. For starters, I don't want a functional language (at least not a purely functional one). Purely functional programming has some distinct downsides. My preferences are firmly on the multiparadigm side, and I'm perfectly happy with a reasonable imperative language (that still supports higher-order functions and closures).

What I'm not happy with is language designers seemingly ignoring the state of the art even when it comes to picking low-hanging fruit.



Sounds like Scala might be what you are looking for if multi paradigm is your thing.


Thank you, but ...

First, I'm not looking for a language. Programming languages are part of my field. I was making an observation rather than expressing a need. If there's a language that's not totally obscure or esoteric, I've probably written some serious code in it at some time.

Second, I know and use Scala (among other languages) and have done so since the 1.x versions, but the JVM dependency is too often a problem (and Scala Native is not yet mature).




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