Do you guys know a cool language to get a bit more into functional programming?
Doesn't matter if purely functional or a mashup of functional and imperative programming.
And please a real-world language, let Haskell stay in its Ivory-tower where it belongs.

Scala, Clojure

@irene
For what, inflicting pain upon myself ?

@asgs
What about the performance and resource usage, since both run on the JVM.

Elixir

I'd really advice Scala, we got it at school and although sometimes confusing with all its list operators it is a great language to start functional programming with.

You could also try javascript with immutablejs :)

@alexbrooklyn
Hows the performance and resource usage?
I mean, JVM is kinda famous for wasting resources.

@metamourge in my experience scala worksheets were exceptionally slow, but that might have to do with my pc. Anyway, it was a great language to learn fp in

@metamourge JVM performance is really debatable and it depends on what use case you apply it for. If you are running scalable long-running apps, JVM is the platform. And moreover, the more resources you run it on, the better the performance (meaning scalable)

If you are running it in resource-constrained environments, like older RPi, for example, look out for alternatives

Haskell has plenty of uses, but if you feel it's a bit too ivory tower for you, try F# or OCaml

Depends how deep you want to dive into functional programming. If you are ready to drop C-like syntax and want to dive deep Haskell is the language you are looking for. But it's a hard bone to chew for people that mostly use C-likes.