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Re:Elm changed my mind about unpopular languages by jimbokun on Monday February 19, 2018 @05:28PM (#16416272)
Not sure how Elm interacts with Javascript libraries, but JVM languages can generally use any existing Java libraries. So a language built on a popular run time (JVM, .Net VM, guess there's exactly two), can still have excellent library support.
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Re:Elm changed my mind about unpopular languages by krotton on Monday February 19, 2018 @07:25PM (#16416914)
...or Node.js nowadays, so three, I guess.

Elm nicely abstracts over JS interoperability with a mechanism called ports: https://guide.elm-lang.org/interop/javascript.html

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