I agree that the Raison d'être for a .NET or JVM backend is interop. Perhaps that's not worth the effort of an entirely new backend. JavaScript is a different beast, however. I said before:

>From my point of view, languages that cannot run on one of the 3

> aforementioned platforms will become irrelevant. (with the exception of C,

> of course).

I'll take that one step further and say that for web applications it is becoming increasingly difficult to justify using a language that WILL NOT run both client and server. JavaScript (with NodeJS), Clojure (with ClojureScript), and Dart are just a few examples.

I really believe that with a solid JavaScript backend, Haskell would be an ideal web application language. Am I alone in that belief? What can I do to get the ball rolling on that?

--J Arthur