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For what it's worth it, I absolutely love Kraftwerk but, having coded in Scheme for about a decade, I very much dislike Scheme. I'd take Haskell, C++, or Java over Scheme without hesitation. I feel that my life is too short to code in languages without static type checks.

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I would say that if your only problem with Scheme is the lack of static typing, as opposed to the litany of other complaints that are popular, then Typed Racket is a serviceable language. I would say it’s type system is at least equal what you get in C++ or Java. It is not as expressive as Haskell (but really what is that doesn’t go full Idris/Agda/ATS), but there are some #langs making headway to that space.

Yes, a static type system at least strong enough to support parametric polymorphism is an unmitigated win. JavaScript sucks in the same way Scheme does in this regard; but thankfully, there's TypeScript.

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