I spent the last couple of days looking at Scala. They are developing some nice ideas with that language of theirs. It reminds me slightly of Haskell and OCaml with it’s typing system. Strangly it feels less restrictive than I imagined it would be. The other nice thing: well written documentation is available on the site. I’ve enjoyed working through the tutorial they’ve supplied (plus it’s only 14 pages long). Super cool….

Boo is another JVM language that has been on my horizon. Python syntax with some interesting extensions (i.e. static typing, type inference).