Notes While many of you will probably disagree with me, I find the trend towards writing in languages that compile to JavaScript somewhat alarming. The most notable of these languages CoffeeScript, and it's one that has gained a good degree of traction over the last year or so.Unfurl
Notes"An open-source project surprised industry insiders today by announcing an implementation of the Java programming language on the JVM.
The language, dubbed jJava, reflects the current trend for using the JVM as a systems platform for various languages."FeedUnfurl
Notes"Clue is an ANSI C compiler (C89, some C99) that targets high-level languages such as Lua, Javascript or Perl (and some low-level ones). It supports the entire C language, including pointer arithmetic, and can be used to run arbitrary pure-C programs."Unfurl
Notes"I hope you're convinced, by now, that programming languages with first-class functions let you find more opportunities for abstraction, which means your code is smaller, tighter, more reusable, and more scalable."FeedEmbedUnfurl
Notes"FogBugz is written in Wasabi, a very advanced, functional-programming dialect of Basic with closures and lambdas and Rails-like active records that can be compiled down to VBScript, JavaScript, PHP4 or PHP5."FeedEmbedUnfurl