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That would be an odd choice for a Haskell alternative. Lacking higher kinded types and type classes is a bit of a show stopper.

The obvious choice for Haskell on the JVM is Scala.

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Nope - the obvious choice for a functional language on JVM is not Scala and not Kotlin - it's Clojure.

Haskellers tend to be fond of their type system.

In a standard conversation, I would totally agree with you. However, since the OP is comparing Java vs Haskell, I figured I would offer something that's, imo, better than Java, and perhaps good enough that a pragmatic Haskeller can accept.

Granted, Closure is probably a more pure alternative.

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