Has anyone here given the Fantom programming language a whirl? (pun intended).

My first impression:

  • I like the ability to have the code run on either the .NET or Java VM.
  • The syntax is nice and clean and does not try anything fancy.
  • I have a belief that "the library is the language" and the developers of Fan believe that their USP is their APIs:

But getting a language to run on both Java and .NET is the easy part - in fact there are many solutions to this problem. The hard part is getting portable APIs. Fan provides a set of APIs which abstract away the Java and .NET APIs. We actually consider this one of Fan's primary benefits, because it gives us a chance to develop a suite of system APIs that are elegant and easy to use compared to the Java and .NET counter parts.

Any other thoughts, first impressions, pros and cons?

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