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People don't understand that JIT languages are still compiled, JIT literally describes when it's compiled.
That said, F# and/or OCaml.
Kotlin is nice
Scala is the the first I used and I like it a lot. If I had more time I'd love to give ocaml a decent try but I don't think I can get into it these days.
purescript if you count “compile to js” as compiled.
Otherwise Haskell
That's transpiling, not compiling. Compiling is usually meant as "directly to machine code", but I am yet to find an "official definition".
transpiling is just a type of compiling. compiling in no terms means 'directly to machine code'.
There is no official definition, in part because there isn't any formal way to define the term that satisfies our intuition.
Most treatments will handle "transpiling" as a special case of "compiling" and some will even handle decompilation as a special case where the object language is higher level than the source. Of course, even defining "higher level" can be quite hard.
Plenty of languages "compile to C" and I see no issue with saying something "compiles to js," especially given that js mostly lacks features of purescript rather than the other way around.
Elm, which is the loveliest language ever.
But I'm not sure if compiles to javascript counts as compiled, in which case haskell, which is considerably less lovely but still good.
Roc isn't finished, but it might turn out lovely, I don't know.
Transpiles :)
Java
