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Re:Elm: declarative language that compiles to HTML, CSS and JS by wheatBread on Monday December 10, 2012 @03:15PM (#4901263)
1) Brand new language inspired by Haskell's syntax, but it is really much closer to ML (strict evaluation, no type classes). More info: http://www.testblogpleaseignore.com/2012/06/21/why-elm/

2) That is totally true! The idea is quite general. I think it works best in a strongly typed language like OCaml or Haskell, but it could work anywhere. FrTime is a Scheme/Lisp/Racket version of FRP. My personal opinion is that it works best in Elm though :P

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Re:Elm: declarative language that compiles to HTML, CSS and JS by scarmig on Monday December 10, 2012 @06:11PM (#4902125)
Briefly, how would you summarize the semantics of FRP in your language as compared to Yampa in Haskell?
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Re:Elm: declarative language that compiles to HTML, CSS and JS by wheatBread on Monday December 10, 2012 @08:33PM (#4902632)
A generalization. Arrowized FRP (as introduced in Yampa) can be entirely embedded in Elm.

The Automaton library is the beginnings of such an embedding: http://elm-lang.org/docs/Automaton.elm

To be more concrete, in Elm you can work directly with signals if you want. In Yampa you cannot; you only get "signal functions" (which Elm has as well in the form of Automatons).

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