is there statically typed language with nice lambda support for the JVM?

Question

I'd quite like to write some Google App Engine apps, but I'm a c# developer by trade, and as such I like static typing and Linq (or at least extensions + lambdas + predicates, if not query syntax). Is there a language I can use on the JVM that offers these features?

Answer 1

Since the Google App engine doesn't even include all the basic Java classes, but is a subset, trying to use anything like Clojure, which is a functional language that compiles to Java, would be very risky.

You may want to just stay in the sandbox provided by Google, even though you will be missing a great deal having gotten used to .NET 3.5 and C#3.

Answer 2

Scala: http://www.scala-lang.org/

Actually, Groovy also has optional static typing, so I'll include it as well, but most static-type, uh, types seem to prefer Scala. Groovy can be found at: http://groovy.codehaus.org/

Answer 3

I'd look into Scala, it's a neat language, it's fast typed & functional Support in Google app engine might not be a stretch. Check out this blog post from the Google team on jvm language support

Many languages and in the runtime bind them

Answer 4

http://code.google.com/p/stab-language/