[mambodog]

   Elm has inspired ... the development of ReactJS

I don't think that's true. React is a descendant of XHP, and predates Elm. Perhaps you were thinking of Redux?

[boubiyeah]

ReactJS introduced virtual DOM before Elm did (Elm first used virtual-dom a lib that was developped quite some time after the release of react, and now uses a new custom implementation) redux was inspired by the "Elm architecture" where everything is global but composed by object/record keys at all levels of the tree.

[Skinney]

Elm's virtual dom was inspired by Clojurescript's om, which was based off of React. So yeah, this is not true.

[iLemming]

I've been writing in Clojurescript. To be honest - every time I see a new discussion thread about something new in Javascript-land I can't stop thinking that Clojure and Clojurescript are almost always a few steps ahead of the crowd.

[Skinney]

Used to write in clojure and clojurescript myself. While it's definetly nicer than React, React did come first (om and reagent are just bindings around React. The way om and reagent are faster than React out of the box, is what inspired Elm's vdom module).