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by Tehnix 2990 days ago
A bit of a side-track, but I feel like I'm in a weird waiting phase with Pure FP JS.

With Elm, I don't really feel like introducing it to my team before 0.19 hits, because it "feels" like it's around the corner, but it has felt like that for a while.

With Haskell, I'm not entirely happy with GHCJS and the tooling surrounding it. I'm dreaming of the WebGHC[0]/WASM being nicer, if it ever gets done.

I don't exactly know what keeps me off PureScript, perhaps that most frameworks just seem to compile to React, and that the community still hasn't settled on one (at least it seems so from the outside).

Honestly, Miso[1] is the one I feel the most optimistic about atm.

[0] https://github.com/WebGHC

[1] https://haskell-miso.org

1 comments

You might check out ReasonML. There is even a blessed ReasonReact
ReasonML isn't pure FP.
Purity is not an end unto itself.
Immutability and purity by default goes a long way to remove a lot of headaches. I could settle for immutability, but it seems ReasonML mixes things a bit.