[basdevries]

I am excited to dive into FP, however, there doesn't seem to be a 'good' language yet. I noticed that oCaml is running up but that's still a bit too much 'scientific' as you might say. eg it doesn't really come close to anything web/app related. If I'm wrong, please tell me! I'd love to do FP.

[valarauca1]

Common LISP is a great language, but it spoils you since it has so few restrictions, its kinda in a class of its own because its just so unrestricted.

Scala is a fine language, but limited, largely serves as gate way drug to other FP languages. Its a very good starting point.

Haskell is odd and the type system is I feel restrictive. Also the community is really addicted to big mathy words. I do love its notation at the same time :\

F# is pretty much universally loved (from what I gather, I haven't used it myself), and now that the .NET run time is unbolted from windows it might start gaining traction.

oCaml I haven't used so I can't comment.

Erlang is VERY popular, especially with the backend FP crowd since it does concurrency very simply. I haven't used it.

[codygman]

> Haskell is odd and the type system is I feel restrictive.

Can you elaborate on this? After using Haskell for some time now I can't seem to come up with use cases where the type system is/would be restrictive.

[mod]

A lot of people are swearing by Clojure.

I've been learning, myself, and really enjoying myself.

It seems to have a pretty solid web ecosystem, can use the best parts of java, and is a lisp with optional mutability for when you feel you need it.

I'm not disappointed I chose it, I can say that much.