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Isn't Elm built on top of maybe the most mainstream "platform"? JavaScript? If all else fails you can glue in some JavaScript via its ports system[1]. [1]Languages like PureScript …

The best ideas are those that you can share between languages. When you get hung up on idioms, or when you recreate idioms that don't matter in another language, that's where the p…

The "no" was probably aimed at the fact that you were splitting hairs against their use of "sequence". Optional can generally be thought of as a "sequence" of one or zero values. Y…

Elm on the frontend and Haskell on the backend is a sensible choice, though at that point you may be better off with PureScript on the frontend.

Every single comment here is focused on just one aspect of this article: speed. Far more interesting points the article covers are around _how_ Elm optimizes and _how_ developers o…

Curious: what is your definition of performance and how do you view this complaint?

What typed languages have you used and what aspects do you find tedious? I find that the experience of writing brittle type-checking logic and tests in dynamic languages is rather …

I'm not sure what you're getting at with "useful," but it looks like it's going to be incredibly fun to play with, and I wish it were available when I was a kid messing around with…

What about Dwarf Fortress?

First two tries: ~ % curl "http://api.genderize.io?name=pat" {"pat":null}% Shouldn't that be "unisex"? ~ % curl "http://api.genderize.io?name=patricia" {"patricia":null}% Hm...

I saw a couple engineers from Craigslist present at a Mongo event within the last year, and they strangely acted as if Mongo were a joke—that is, they treated it like a playground,…