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by spooky_deep 254 days ago
A few commits recently.

There are lots of competing MLs you can use instead:

- F# (Fable)

- ReasonML

- OCaml (Bucklescript)

- Haskell

- PureScript

IMO the problem with Elm was actually The Elm Architecture.
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sauercrowd 254 days ago
What's "the Elm architecture"?
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fodkodrasz 254 days ago
A simple UI programming pattern, with a circular, unidirectional data flow. It is very rigid by design, to be side-effect free, functional, unidirectional:

https://guide.elm-lang.org/architecture/

I'm no frontend guy, but I think it did/was inspire(d) react (redux?) maybe. Corrections on this very welcome

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spooky_deep 254 days ago
Yes it was too rigid. Too much boiler plate. The design space of functional UI is still being explored.
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acemarke 254 days ago
Correct - Elm was one of several inspirations for Redux:

- https://redux.js.org/understanding/history-and-design/prior-...

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davesnx 254 days ago
OCaml / Reason (Melange)
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