Most of my “family” apps is just quick hacks in JavaScript. Simple to throw together, runs on everything with a browser, like the tv, and is easily published on anything serving static files, like github pages.
Edit: For some more hobby like projects C# works out quite nicely though. I’d say it’s probably easier to stick with the beaten path here if not seeing a particular advantage from a functional language. I hear F# is quite nice as far as a functional languages go though.
I've been wanting for a while a lightweight Electron alternative that doesn't use web views, just native APIs, and uses Lua instead. So it would be an .exe file that looks for a main.lua somewhere, and runs it, giving access to modules that wrap the Win32 API in high-level functionality. Then you could run a command that combines the .exe and the main.lua into a new .exe file that you can distribute. It would be super lightweight and wouldn't even need a compiler to be installed to be able to make tiny lightweight apps.
Most of my “family” apps is just quick hacks in JavaScript. Simple to throw together, runs on everything with a browser, like the tv, and is easily published on anything serving static files, like github pages.
Edit: For some more hobby like projects C# works out quite nicely though. I’d say it’s probably easier to stick with the beaten path here if not seeing a particular advantage from a functional language. I hear F# is quite nice as far as a functional languages go though.