[requinot59]

> He especially liked Lua

Well, not as much as Haskell : "Haskell is pretty ideal but I’m not smart enough to hack the GHC. Lua is less ideal but a lovely language [...]" (at the beginning of the 2nd answer.)

> He regrets using the CommonJS module system

Yes, and this is pretty interesting. Also, he regrets using WAF as the build system ("it introduces more WTFs than necessary".)

I have a great respect for Ryan Dahl. He is not orthodox. He is not a blind parrot.

[jimmyjazz14]

The good news is someone else did 'hack' GHC and gave it a nice new IO back-end. http://johantibell.com/files/hask17ape-sullivan.pdf

[mjs]

Heh, I got the impression that he tried harder to get Lua working, partly because he felt is was a more pragmatic choice, but I take your point.

[requinot59]

And I do take yours. The fact than Node is actually using Javascript, which is more similar to Lua than to Haskell, makes your impression very sensible ;-)