Update a few years on.
I was reminded of this discussion when a friend recommended this course on Haskell (I’m trying to learn), and I was surprised to see it’s by @byorgey!
As for TaskRatchet, I ended up building V1 of the API in Python. I think at the time it was a reasonable decision, as I was able to build out a stable backend with relative ease and speed.
However now I’m slowly working towards converting the backend to TypeScript. So came around on using a typed language! Though I’m fairly certain some of the folks who weighed in here would probably prefer I use something with even stronger types than TypeScript.
Who knows? Maybe once I’m comfortable with Haskell I won’t be able to resist the urge to port the backend yet again 