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Re:Luna – Visual and textual functional programming language by coldtea on Thursday June 22, 2017 @02:06PM (#14614095)
Because few care for Idris and PureScript.

They wanted simplicity and to control the language and syntax -- not to tie themselves to some Haskell-like environment.

Re:Luna – Visual and textual functional programming language by tentaTherapist on Monday June 26, 2017 @12:27PM (#14637992)
The irony being that this itself is a Haskell-like environment, and a complex, dependently-typed one at that, with full type inference and strange function name choices (in my opinion, of course.)