What are the popular 'web-ready' functional programming languages?

Question

This is a simple question: what are the most popular/used/developed (libraries a plus) functional programming languages that are ready to be used for web development? I don\'t

Answer 1

This answer is partly in jest, but some people try their best to do functional programming in JavaScript:

http://osteele.com/sources/javascript/functional/
Javascript as a functional language

Using the same language on client and server has to count as a plus, even if the language isn't purely functional.

Answer 2

I have not used it myself, but WebSharper looks interesting.

Answer 3

Haskell has a plethora of web frameworks. The most well-established framework is Happs, but there are several new and active projects:

• Yesod
• Snap
• Haskell on a horse

The full list is on the Haskell wiki.

Answer 4

OCaml has a web framework, Ocsigen

The language also comes with some nifty utilities that makes easy to build simple web applications, like netplex module (I've used it before in a school project, an mvc framework, it did almost all the web/socket part)

Answer 5

You might want to take a look at Erlang's Webmachine, MochiWeb (includes a bunch of libraries), Nitrogen, etc.

http://bitbucket.org/justin/webmachine/wiki/Home

http://github.com/mochi/mochiweb

http://nitrogenproject.com/

Answer 6

These are the few I could remember top of my head:

• Lift for Scala
• Play for Scala
• HappStack for Haskell
• Compojure for Clojure