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Ask HN: “Best” Functional Language for the Web (key on Performance)

1 pointsby orph4nusabout 10 years ago
Hey. I&#x27;m planning on developing a free web game as a hobby project. The game will have quite a lot of calculations as it will rely heavily on fractal generation, pseudo variants and other forms of generation on the fly. But without going to much in details (as I&#x27;m still in the early prototyping phases) I would like to know what these days the best functional language for the web is?<p>I only ever do web development for hobby projects, as I&#x27;m a developer for personal computers and embedded systems in my professional time. I like to develop in Functional Languages as It fits best with how I think and come up with solutions for my problems. Besides one web project that I developed with Clojurescript I don&#x27;t have much experience with functional languages for the web though. Which brings me to the question...<p>What functional languages do you recommend for the web? Clojurescript, Elixir, Erlang, or another one? Key elements I look for is completeness of libraries available and performance.<p>Thank you upfront.

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orph4nusabout 10 years ago
The main problem that i had with Clojurescript was that it seemed to be quite intensive even for the simple puzzle game that I made. Note that it may be because I hacked the program in one night and probably raped the language horrible. Which is why I&#x27;m still open for Clojurescript suggestions by people who have good experiences using it.
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user1241320about 10 years ago
I&#x27;m surprised nobody mentioned elm*<p>*<a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;elm-lang.org" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;elm-lang.org</a>
davidwabout 10 years ago
Erlang is not for computationally intensive stuff - but it could easily be used to control something that is, like a C program.
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guiltabout 10 years ago
I like Scala because of the amount of Libraries, Concurrency Primitives available.<p>Algebird is one of my favorite projects of all time.
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