Yeah, it has type classes, although the syntax is a little different than how Haskell does it.

Agreed to all of that. I've tried to get into it several times, but I have almost no interest in web development. I'd really like to use it just as a language. It seems like it should be possible to decouple it, but it seems like the only way that will happen is if Adam gets more people in on it. And that's not likely to happen with the scanty documentation and completely impenetrable compiler code. :(