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by mjaniczek 2426 days ago
Since Futhark has sum types, I wonder whether we could transpile Elm syntax to Futhark. I'll have to dig into what's possible with Futhark and how well it would map...
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James Carson gave a talk at this year's Elm Conf on using Elm to talk to Futhark:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FVP8zxpZKV8

The biggest problem would be the absence of recursion, but a recursion-free subset of Elm (with a different standard library) would be straightforward.