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There is also a compiler for OCaml bytecode to JavaScript, called js_of_ocaml[0]. It's been around for a while, but I've only recently started using it. It's got a pretty good FFI, and makes futures-based programming via lwt[1] very convenient.

[0]: http://ocsigen.org/js_of_ocaml/

[1]: http://ocsigen.org/lwt/




There's also a compiler for Haskell to JavaScript called GHCJS[0]. Many of Haskell libraries can be compiled easily. I think someone compiled Pandoc directly to JS and made a web interface and bundled the app[2].

One interesting things besides web that people have been doing with it is writing Atom editor plugins[1].

[0]: https://github.com/ghcjs/ghcjs

[1]: http://edsko.net/2015/02/14/atom-haskell/

[2]: http://markup.rocks/


A similar, more mature & full-featured, approach. Has the power of the Ocaml community going for it. Quite the head start. :)




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