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If Java people go to Scala, C# go to F#, where do Ruby people go for functional nirvana?

Asked 2010-02-12T19:02:50.857
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I know a lot of Java people have started looking at Scala since it runs on the JVM, and a lot of people in the Microsoft world are looking at F#, but what does Ruby have as a natural functional successor?

In a pure FP sense Ruby doesn't lack anything, instead it has too much some may say. A functional language forces the programmer to not use global variables and other idioms so much (although it is possible to use globals in functional languages)

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Assuming Ruby people don't just go to the JVM themselves, I think most would adopt Erlang, being another dynamically typed language.

answered 2010-02-12T21:38:14.660

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