[grayrest]

> it got me to start thinking about what I wanted in a functional language that compiles into JS

I investigated Elm just after the 0.17 release, decided I was fine with it but didn't really love the language. I've since moved to investigating F# and the Fable compiler. While it's unlikely that someone who prefers Purescript would prefer an ML derivative, I feel I should mention it for other people reading the thread from the front page and prefer having imperative escape hatches.

The Ocaml to JS compilers (Bucklescript/js_of_ocaml) also produce nice js output but my background with Clojure has left me enjoying the benefits of being a functional language that's part of a larger ecosystem and I'm comfortable enough with .net core to be willing to treat F# as a viable language outside windows.