I was wishing for a nice language to script in too lately but I dont think you're gna do much better than modern ECMAscript.
well ya, ecmascript would make my life easier in many ways.. mostly from the stability/environment side of things. The environment side especially -> the javascript world is a mess, but it's simple to get things setup with bower/npm/browserify/whatever .. there's millions of solutions. These languages i'm playing with are just too young. Purescript is pretty stable.. much more stable than GHCJS. They just have so any changes between major releases, that my code has drifted so far, that it's just perhaps too much effort right now getting it all to work.
after failing with ghcjs all day .. i might go the ecmascript route.
the thing is, i really dislike webdev.. so, i'm not actually trying to spend lots of time doing it. I just want to get something up & working at this point, so i can get back to studying using my notes system... the forum project is still on hold.. with that, i'd still love to go the full stack route -> but i don't want to re-write my backend in another language.. so right now, that's full stack haskell. The main reason why I want to go full stack (haskell), is because when I write the forum UI for the browser, I also want to write a console/text client for myself, so I can use that primarily.. the way I have things structured right now, that was entirely a possibility.. because the UI and any other interfaces, share this same core I wrote.
i'm going to still just hold off on finishing the forum project for a while.. it's too stressful even thinking about how much of a failure that has been. i'd be done by now if I didn't run into problems with purescript or ghcjs, and that's really annoying to think about.. HEH.
edit: i'm about to get a small riotjs app going, to give me a simple ui for my notes app.
pc!
