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by vog 3660 days ago
That was my first thought, too: Elm is quite similar to OCaml, so why not using OCaml in the backend? With all that server-side stuff around MirageOS, you can not only build a server app, but a full server VM within OCaml.

On the other hand, OCaml also targets JavaScript coding in the browser, via js_of_ocaml or the newer bucklescript.

I would be very interested in a comparison of client-side development with OCaml+js_of_ocaml (or OCaml+bucklescript) versus Elm.