On 05/22/2015 05:00 PM, Paul Rubin wrote: > Steven D'Aprano <st...@pearwood.info> writes: >> the impression I get after a couple of hours is that Javascript tries >> really hard to do everything it can for you except what you actually want. > > Javascript is like C++ in that it's a lot of layers of legacy cruft, but > if you ignore the ugly parts, the good parts that are left are fine to > program in, though there are still stupid issues of type confusion. > > If you like Haskell you should look at Purescript (purescript.org), > which is a Haskell-resembling language with strict evaluation, designed > to compile straightforwardly into Javascript and interoperate with it. > Several other backends are also available or in progress.
Or if you are a rare one that likes Python, you can use PyJS, which translates Python into Javascript. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
