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Re:Why Ruby is an acceptable Lisp (2005) by wyager on Saturday September 10, 2016 @06:56PM (#12471250)
On the other functional JavaScript side of things, there are also Elm and Purescript. They are both pure functional, and both are ML-inspired (strongly typed, equational, ADTs with pattern matching, etc.). Elm is a fair bit easier to get started with, but has a substantially weaker type system and fewer useful functional features. Purescript is a fair bit more difficult to get started with, but has a substantially more powerful type system and lots of useful features like effect types.

Personally, I greatly prefer ML style languages to lisp style languages. I get fed up with all the parentheses in lisps.

Re:Why Ruby is an acceptable Lisp (2005) by michaelsbradley on Saturday September 10, 2016 @07:14PM (#12471321)
BuckleScript is worth a look too:

http://bloomberg.github.io/bucklescript/

It's in the OCaml-to-JS family.