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by karmakaze 1458 days ago
I'll second that as "I like F# and OCaml".

Much earlier on F# was hard to get started with especially if not on Windows. C# still gets a lot more coverage than F#, but it pretty much works out of the box with free Visual Studio Community or Visual Studio for Mac (not VS Code) and some setup tutorial instructions.

And as a (former) Java programmer, I've been frustrated at how slowly ideas have come. Union types? Only in multi-catch expressions.