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What is wrong with PureScript? It has strict evaluation and the Syntax is 99% similar to Haskell. It transpiles to JavaScript, C++, Erlang and Go. It runs easily in older browsers without wasm, and has access to huge amount of software libs through npm interop. Yet it seems to be used by very few.

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It's a strange thing that purescript is not more prevalent than it is.

It's got lots of development activity, and a huge package library, not to mention interop with JavaScript as well.

My guess is that Haskell already takes all the air out of the (albeit small) FP room.

It's quite frustrating to use a language that's so close to Haskell, but without being able to use all the libraries you're used to. And I think now that Haskell's own story for web frontend is improving, some of its appeal is fading.

Having used it in production for a while, tooling was poor, particularly IDE support, and anonymous records are in practice less of an obvious win than I expected. Plus I like laziness.

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