Funny, I've done my best work in PHP. But, I have a semester of Scheme under my belt and have been doing object-oriented programming (or more precisely, moving

Funny, I've done my best work in PHP. But, I have a semester of Scheme under my belt and have been doing object-oriented programming (or more precisely, moving away from it) for decades. I really, really wish there was a rapid application development language like PHP or Go written over a functional language like LISP. I've thought about writing one, and get all the way through it in my head until I come up to the inevitable problem with monads. I believe I can make it work by treating the monads as imaginary numbers with hidden contents and never really solve the problem of mutability, but I don't know what that would look like in practice yet. The language itself would basically be Javascript without mutable variables. There would be no async/await, instead, everything would be synchronous blocking with message-oriented streams in place of messages. Like the Actor model but executing immediately as a graph so it's fully deterministic. Facebook kind of made one called Skip, although I feel like they might have been working on another one with a "z" in its name, or maybe someone else was, can't remember: http://skiplang.com http://skiplang.com