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Author here. I was comparing things that I have developed software in. It would seem unfair to compare things that I have not actively contributed production code and deploy. I mainly write web applications (services) of which C++, Rust, Haskell or Lisp/Scheme are not languages I find compelling to write web applications with. Would love to hear if you find this otherwise.

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No, I honestly know next to nothing about web apps programming. I do know there exists decent-looking support for web apps for Rust, Haskell, and Scheme (Racket, but Racket isn't compiled to a binary), but I don't have the knowledge base to assess how good web programming is in these languages, if it's even good at all. I know this website is written in Arc (a Lisp). https://github.com/wting/hackernews

There are some nice things about writing web apps in Lisps, since one can represent HTML as s-expressions, e.g. (:html (:body ((:p (:class "main")) "Foo bar baz."))). And of course macros mean that one can create nice abstractions quite difficult or impossible in other languages.

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