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Re:Faithful Elm and the Amazing Router by masklinn on Thursday June 16, 2016 @09:49AM (#11916047)
MLs are fairly close I would think, Elm is syntactically very similar to Haskell but semantically it feels closer to SML or OCaml (without the O part)
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Re:Faithful Elm and the Amazing Router by vog on Thursday June 16, 2016 @11:15AM (#11916687)
That was my first thought, too: Elm is quite similar to OCaml, so why not using OCaml in the backend? With all that server-side stuff around MirageOS, you can not only build a server app, but a full server VM within OCaml.

On the other hand, OCaml also targets JavaScript coding in the browser, via js_of_ocaml or the newer bucklescript.

I would be very interested in a comparison of client-side development with OCaml+js_of_ocaml (or OCaml+bucklescript) versus Elm.

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Re:Faithful Elm and the Amazing Router by weavie on Thursday June 16, 2016 @09:53AM (#11916066)
Yes. SML really deserves a lot more love.
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