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React, HapiJS, RethinkDB, Node and Haskell. That might be the coolest stack ever. Do you have any FOSS project on Github?
No projects under the Lumi name yet, but our team contributes to many FOSS projects and also have their own interesting projects such as Purescript by Phil Freeman who recently joined the team: https://github.com/purescript/purescript
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Yeah, F# feels like Don Syme looked at ocaml and haskell and applied a bit of yagni and tossed in some other useful conventions (I'm sure many others were involved as well). It drives me crazy that Microsoft doesn't push it harder from an investment perspective. They don't even write books about it :)
There are books out there. For new language adoption, F# do have new features like Type Providers. However, it's not the best language in X for X in ['data science', 'distributed system'] etc.
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By objective, you mean succinctness (which can be simply measured by program character counts)? In this regard, APL must be the most objectively expressive language. What if we run deflation over APL? It happens that I measure expressiveness by the amount of the time the author takes to express an idea and/or the amount of the time the reviewer takes to comprehend an idea. That, unfortunately, is very subjective. APL…
What evidence do you have that APL programmers do not express and comprehend ideas in APL programs much faster than programmers using other languages? Similarly for Haskell. How do you know you're not just a Blub programmer? http://www.paulgraham.com/avg.html
The second evidence is an indirect evidence. If average APL programmers can write and read programs at the same speed (character count/minute) as average programmers for other languages, Java for instance, then APL programmer will possess significant advantage in finishing similar programming tasks, given that the typical code size is often a few orders smaller. Why such advantage is not embraced and see APL programmers everywhere? My hypothesis is avg APL prgrammers program at much slower speed.
Like any science, I cannot say my hypothesis is conclusive. I am open (eager) to hear and examine any other evidences (and change my hypothesis if necessary).