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Re:IBM releases Elm-powered app by Athas on Thursday January 10, 2019 @01:56AM (#18872044)
OCaml and Standard ML are two others, and I'd say OCaml is established enough that Elm is not really breaching new ground here. The main difference is that OCaml has other features you tend to use instead, particularly the module system.
Re:IBM releases Elm-powered app by ikfmpwdsoz on Thursday January 10, 2019 @08:07AM (#18873522)
OCaml is a very fun language in my experience. Apparently they were going to add ad-hoc polymorphism in the form of modular implicits, but I have no idea what happened to that.
Re:IBM releases Elm-powered app by logicchains on Thursday January 10, 2019 @09:04AM (#18873852)
It's due around the time OCaml multicore support and Half Life 3 are released.
Re:IBM releases Elm-powered app by rs86 on Thursday January 10, 2019 @10:13PM (#18880728)
Can't the module system be used for ad hoc polymorphism?