[codygman]

> Haskell devs spent the time talking how intellectually superior the are and got nothing done.

I could give a recap of Haskell development that's happened while Scala.js has been developed to debunk this silly accusation, but it wouldn't change your mind.

[premium-concern]

Well, Scala.js went from not existing to rock solid in 3 years. The various Haskell-to-JS efforts existed much longer, but none have the support, completeness and maturity of Scala.js.

[willtim]

That is down to who has the most funding. Javascript itself has even more "support, completeness and maturity" than Scalajs. But obviously that's not the deciding factor.

[premium-concern]

Scala.js was largely done by a single student on top of his other university duties.

I think it's mostly down to determination. Some things are hard, but need to be done.

Haskell people just seem to give up more easily - see all the half-working projects. Nobody finishes stuff, the next dev just starts his own new project, and abandons it later.

Scala.js handily beats JavaScript in terms of IDE support and tooling

[willtim]

A quick Google suggests Scalajs has had developers paid to work on it (EPFL lab and Lightbend): http://scala-lang.org/blog/2016/03/14/announcing-the-scala-c...

The Haskell community has achieved great things even though most contributions are done in people's spare time. That is determination.

[premium-concern]

That's nonsense. I think it's great that outside contributions (like allowing the use of the Scala's CI infrastructure) are valued, but the actual commits show a clear picture.

There is no determination in failing to get anything done and doing NIH for a decade.