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Yes, I would be more likely to play in Python, though I guess I do need to bite the bullet and learn javascript at some point.

If you can integrate haste or fay and let people play in Haskell that would be indeed be epic, and I would definitely use it (as haskell is my learning project at the moment)

I would have played in Python, Ruby, or C++. I almost played in CoffeeScript by compiling it myself.

I don't know Haskell, but I would have considered learning it if it was offered. ;)

> write a Haskell -> JavaScript transpiler

There are at least three of them already - UHC's JS backend, Haste and Fay.

Oh cool, I'll check those out tonight (and a bunch of Python parsers people have pointed me at). CodeCombat's challenge is to transform other languages into a Mozilla AST so that we can apply our crazy transpilation stuff to it. So anything that makes that easier brings us closer to supporting those languages in our levels.

I would be happy if I was able to submit C++ or Python. I am very familiar with the data structures in their standard libraries, and implementing this in JavaScript is very tedious in comparison.

Why not ClojureScript instead?

Could be fun.

Just add Fay.