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Oh yeah I knew I was forgetting one, F#/Fable seems really popular among F# devs, but it doesn't seem like it's picking up any traction for FE devs that aren't already in that comm…

Lumi: https://twitter.com/hdgarrood/status/1412833319348314121

I think the project is a while off of being properly usable. I think it's mostly written with Node in mind, but shouldn't be too difficult to swap out the Fs bits for browser-speci…

The compiler written in Haskell relies on some extensions and/or optimisation tricks that make it not possible to compile with GHCJS. The 0.18 compiler (or maybe it was 0.17) was c…

Neither, really. I'd say it has the largest community out of the various compile-to-js statically typed FP langs, at least with an explicit front-end focus. - PureScript has a smal…

Ha yes, very true!

As far as I know those two are equivalent. Definitely slightly clunkier, but is what it is.

Not quite. I guess in some ways phantom types achieve the opposite of structural typing. In a language with structural typing, two types are considered equivalent if they share the…

Using phantom types in state machine transitions is really cool, yeah. I came across a little gist that explored that idea in Elm [1] the other day, actually. [1]: https://gist.git…

> The people who write these "I'm leaving X" posts must know they have disproportional power in such a tiny pond. This is what I find so disappointing and likely why many "thin-ski…

Because every single one of these posts is "I like Elm, I don't like Evan('s style of leadership)." All of these leavers could've maintained that fabled community fork they want wi…