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Ask YC : [Optionally] Statically typed languages on the JVM?
2 points by randomhack 6561 days ago
I know of 2 statically typed languages on the JVM : Java and Scala. Any other interesting languages on the JVM which are more or less stable enough to use? I already know a lot of dynamic laguages run on the JVM like Jython and JRuby but not too many nice statically typed languages around.

Something with optional static typing like Common Lisp will also do. (I know about ABCL but its GPL and I am not sure how well CLOS maps to JVM for example).
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bayareaguy 6560 days ago
http://flp.cs.tu-berlin.de/~tolk/vmlanguages.html mentions Groovy - http://groovy.codehaus.org/ - a dynamically and/or statically typed language (i.e. static typing is optional, otherwise it defaults to dynamic typing) high level scripting language for the JVM which compiles down to bytecode either at run time or compile time. It features closures, neat List and Map syntax, integrated markup language and expression language, auto-boxing, operator overloading, mixins, AOP interceptors etc.
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PieSquared 6560 days ago
"but its GPL"

What's wrong with the GPL? Are you planning to modify the language itself?

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