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Re:Standard ML Family by sshine on Saturday April 16, 2022 @08:04PM (#31057214)
SML for web and game dev? Why not!

There is the Rails-inspired web framework SML on Stilts: — https://github.com/j4cbo/stilts — presumably named after its great ergonomics.

And there is the SDL-powered MosGame, specifically for the Moscow ML compiler — https://github.com/Eckankar/MosGame — it comes with these examples: https://github.com/Eckankar/MosGame/tree/master/examples

But really, SML is primarily good for writing compilers.

Re:Standard ML Family by qznc on Sunday April 17, 2022 @05:05AM (#31059555)
SML could be a nice “typed Lua” for scripting.
Re:Standard ML Family by mbrock on Sunday April 17, 2022 @07:06AM (#31060013)
Especially if there was an implementation that could build from C source code in a simple way without requiring an existing SML compiler…