how about that standard ml?

let's talk about this ``faggot'' language, /prog/

not using python
2012

>>1
It's a pretty cool language. What's there to talk about?

It's pretty nice for certain types of programs, such as processing large typed abstract syntax trees.
I'm not entirely sure many people are using it these days, seems most people that like static typing and type inference (and ML-likes in general) would err towards Haskell, or possibly O'Caml.
Myself, I tend to prefer the dynamic typing and syntax of Lisp more for day-to-day for actual my regular applications/tools/programs, so I can't say I've written too much *ML code, but I did mostly enjoy the time I did spent writing *ML.

is it like javascript?

>>5
No. Not at all really. You can do FP more in JS but it's not idiomatic and the similarities end there.