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by eklavya 3187 days ago
Elm is nowhere near Haskell or Scala in expressibility. You would have to compare Purescript/GHCJS/ScalaJS. In the native Haskell/Scala land I usually don't have to do much ceremony and the functional code is succinct and a pleasure to write. They may lack the all powerful macros of LISPs but the need to reach for a macro seldom arises.

The original point wasn't about code size it was about bugs and I was surprised to see Clojure doing better than the very strongly typed ones. Hence the comment on the smartness of Clojure people ;)
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hellofunk 3187 days ago
I will agree that there are a lot of really smart people in the Clojure community, but that is also true in other communities. Some of the most brilliant developers I know are hard-core C++ guys.

The original point about bugs is in my opinion, regarding my comment you replied to, very similar to a discussion about code size. There are some great reads [0] that go into further depth on this issue, if you are curious.

[0] https://github.com/papers-we-love/papers-we-love/blob/master...

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