New Adventures for Elm

ple-ase. Not everyone spends its time buzzing. The amount of people using Elm right now is a drop in the bucket compared to the amount of people using OCaml (and F#, in more recent years).

Elm is a fun new language, it has cool features and its take on FRP is interesting, but I would really like its author to stop speaking like he invented fire.

I would take js_of_ocaml + FRP over Elm any time, just for the size of the ecosystem and the overall expressiveness of the language.

Re: New Adventures for Elm

#6

Post by CodyReichert » Mon, Jan 04, 2016, 7:28 PM UTC

Drup wrote: post #5

dukerutledge wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

In frontend? Not 100%, but pretty much.

ple-ase. Not everyone spends its time buzzing. The amount of people using Elm right now is a drop in the bucket compared to the amount of people using OCaml (and F#, in more recent years). Elm is a fun new language, it has cool features and its take on FRP is interesting, but I would really like its author to stop speaking like he invented fire. I would take js_of_ocaml + FRP over Elm any time, just for the size of t…

> ... and the overall expressiveness of the language.

We're looking at the same Elm, right?

Re: New Adventures for Elm

#7

Post by dominotw » Mon, Jan 04, 2016, 7:28 PM UTC

Drup wrote: post #5

dukerutledge wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

In frontend? Not 100%, but pretty much.

ple-ase. Not everyone spends its time buzzing. The amount of people using Elm right now is a drop in the bucket compared to the amount of people using OCaml (and F#, in more recent years). Elm is a fun new language, it has cool features and its take on FRP is interesting, but I would really like its author to stop speaking like he invented fire. I would take js_of_ocaml + FRP over Elm any time, just for the size of t…

F# is commonly used on the frontend?

Re: New Adventures for Elm

#8

Post by snuxoll » Mon, Jan 04, 2016, 7:33 PM UTC

dominotw wrote: post #7

Drup wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

ple-ase. Not everyone spends its time buzzing. The amount of people using Elm right now is a drop in the bucket compared to the amount of people using OCaml (and F#, in more recent years). Elm is a fun new language, it has cool features and its take on FRP is interesting, but I would really like its author to stop speaking like he invented fire. I would take js_of_ocaml + FRP over Elm any time, just for the size of t…

F# is commonly used on the frontend?

I'm using it in a WPF app I'm developing internally. Unfortunately all the frontend code is still very OO (I'm handling tens of thousands of records at once in a DataGrid, going full functional is not my idea of a fun time here) - but the sheer reduction in lines due to better syntax, better type safety and being able to actually use my F# backend code without everything needing a wrapper to interface with C# (without being horrible to use) is a nice benefit.

Re: New Adventures for Elm

#9

Post by Drup » Mon, Jan 04, 2016, 7:33 PM UTC

dominotw wrote: post #7

Drup wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

ple-ase. Not everyone spends its time buzzing. The amount of people using Elm right now is a drop in the bucket compared to the amount of people using OCaml (and F#, in more recent years). Elm is a fun new language, it has cool features and its take on FRP is interesting, but I would really like its author to stop speaking like he invented fire. I would take js_of_ocaml + FRP over Elm any time, just for the size of t…

F# is commonly used on the frontend?

I don't know about "commonly", but: http://websharper.com/

Re: New Adventures for Elm

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Post by [deleted] » Mon, Jan 04, 2016, 7:39 PM UTC

Kutta wrote: post #3

[deleted] wrote: post #2

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That's an uncharitable reading and you know it.

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