You know what put me over the edge with Haskell? Monads were difficult enough, but one of the first things I wanted to do was randomly shuffle a list. That led me to this: http://www.haskell.org/haskellwiki/Random_shuffle. I knew right then that this was not the kind of language I was interested in.
As for JRuby, fair point, but I'd rather steer clear of Java as much as possible. I have to use Java for Android development and it makes me cry big hippo tears every day.
Obviously I've been converted to the static side, only client-side remains dynamic for me at present, and that's only because there's not yet a statically typed Coffeescript-like language available.
As for JRuby, fair point, but I'd rather steer clear of Java as much as possible. I have to use Java for Android development and it makes me cry big hippo tears every day.