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Re:Roc – A fast, friendly, functional language by adjav on Monday November 20, 2023 @11:40AM (#38350239)
Not really, no. Like Elm, it strips away practically everything that wasn't already in 1970s-era ML. It's much closer to a trimmed-down Ocaml than it is to Haskell.
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Re:Roc – A fast, friendly, functional language by lambda_garden on Monday November 20, 2023 @12:34PM (#38351191)
Some in the ML community think a simpler language has advantages over a more expressive one, in some cases.

For example: https://github.com/fsharp/fslang-suggestions/issues/243#issu...

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Re:Roc – A fast, friendly, functional language by bbkane on Monday November 20, 2023 @05:45PM (#38356008)
Not just the ML community. Go's simplicity is often derided, but I think the best in class tooling (dev tooling like gopls, golangci-lint, deployment tooling like ServiceWeaver, Goreleasor, etc) and easy understandability more than make up for "what yuu can't do"
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Re:Roc – A fast, friendly, functional language by tome on Tuesday November 21, 2023 @07:03AM (#38362504)
Not just in the Go community! Everyone believes in "as simple as possible". The disagreement is about "but no simpler".
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Re:Roc – A fast, friendly, functional language by tkz1312 on Monday November 20, 2023 @02:06PM (#38352793)
Given its strict purity and use of typeclasses over modules I would say roc is more like haskell than it is ocaml.
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