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Re:Why I’m Leaving Elm by mjepronk on Thursday April 09, 2020 @10:57AM (#22823147)
Do you think it is harder to learn than Ocaml/ReasonML though?

I think there is a good free introductory book [1], a welcoming community [2], the language and ecosystem are quite stable nowadays and there's good tooling (now that there's the Spago package manager).

[1] https://leanpub.com/purescript/read [2] https://discourse.purescript.org/

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Re:Why I’m Leaving Elm by vchak1 on Thursday April 09, 2020 @01:08PM (#22824733)
It's definitely harder. I have been doing O'caml for about 20 years now, and we have probably one of the largest Elm apps out there. I looked at Purescript, especially because it also compiles to other languages (C++, BEAM) but the learning curve is a bit steep.
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Re:Why I’m Leaving Elm by christiansakai on Thursday April 09, 2020 @01:28PM (#22824986)
Absolutely.

The 'Pure' is the problem here.

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