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You cannot create web applications without JavaScript these days. It does not matter what is your server side programming language, you need to send to the client JavaScript code to be executed in browser. And that in itself is a shitshow. End of story.

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From another perspective you could say that JS is usually just a compile target these days, in many cases the source language is modern version of JS but in many other cases it's ClojureScript, TypeScript or something else.

Hmm. Time for a Haskell-to-Javascript compiler.

https://github.com/ghcjs/ghcjs

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