Ask HN: Which functional language has the best ecosystem for a web backend?

Re:Ask HN: Which functional language has the best ecosystem ... by sioa on Wednesday January 17, 2018 @05:18AM (#16166831)

JavaScript.

If you want purely functional, both haskell and clojure do have a good backend community and quite a few good tools.

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Re:Ask HN: Which functional language has the best ecosystem ... by TomMarius on Wednesday January 17, 2018 @05:41AM (#16166899)

I'd rather recommend TypeScript

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Re:Ask HN: Which functional language has the best ecosystem ... by sidhuko on Wednesday January 17, 2018 @06:27AM (#16167060)

Have they sorted the differences with async/await? I'd be using if it wasn't from the different implementation meaning you need to use typescript to babel.

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Re:Ask HN: Which functional language has the best ecosystem ... by miaklesp on Wednesday January 17, 2018 @07:15AM (#16167280)

Sorted already. Transpiles async/await natively.

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Re:Ask HN: Which functional language has the best ecosystem ... by sioa on Wednesday January 17, 2018 @06:01AM (#16166974)

Ah yeah ofcourse. TypeScript, always.

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