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Re:Grain: A strongly-typed functional programming language f... by masklinn on Tuesday July 31, 2018 @05:51AM (#17651816)
> Grain is a language compiled to WebAssembly. So comparing it with either Javascript or Elm is pointless

This ability is a tool and nothing precludes a wasm target for Elm (in fact Evan specifically expressed interest in it: https://github.com/WebAssembly/gc/pull/1#discussion_r1115011...).

Either way, comparing Grain to JS or Elm is anything but pointless, at the end of the day it's competing with them.

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Re:Grain: A strongly-typed functional programming language f... by bad_user on Tuesday July 31, 2018 @08:37AM (#17652643)
If we're speaking of competition and JavaScript, then a much stronger competitor would be PureScript.

http://www.purescript.org/

PureScript is a Haskell dialect that was built specifically to run on top of JavaScript engines. Specifically, compared with Haskell, it is strictly evaluated (whereas Haskell is non-strict / lazy, well almost). However it eliminates some of Haskell's baggage, but retains Haskell's functional purity.

It's all around an awesome programming language for FP that targets JavaScript engines, far surpassing any other attempt.

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