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Re:Show HN: Purely Functional Scripting by spleeder on Thursday August 08, 2019 @11:33AM (#20645476)
Seeing how closely TopShell resembles Haskell I am curious why you chose to implement it in Scala rather than Haskell or Purescript.
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Re:Show HN: Purely Functional Scripting by continuational on Friday August 09, 2019 @04:57AM (#20652459)
The reason is that I do Scala at my day job, and thus I'm simply more experienced in that than Haskell.

While I've written a compiler in Haskell in the past, and prefer the language in many ways, I don't know how to do front end programming in Haskell, compile Haskell to efficient JS or debug performance problems. I also don't know if there's a good Haskell IDE these days. PureScript would have been risky for me, since I haven't done anything in it before.

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