ReasonML VS Elm

Hey HN, at Ahrefs we have been working on an online book that hopefully helps React developers get up and running with Melange, an OCaml to JavaScript compiler. You can read more about Melange here: https://melange.re/. There are still a few chapters that we'd like to add before considering it "complete", but it might be already helpful for some folks out there, that's why we decided to publish it early. The book... - Source: Hacker News / 2 months ago

ReScript is "Fast, Simple, Fully Typed JavaScript from the Future". What that means is that ReScript has a lightning fast compiler, an easy to learn JS like syntax, strong static types, with amazing features like pattern matching and variant types. Until 2020 it was called "BuckleScript" and is closely related to ReasonML. - Source: dev.to / 4 months ago

- ReasonML - https://reasonml.github.io/ - essentially ocaml with nicer syntax. - Source: Hacker News / 4 months ago

This tracks with how I've seen "normal" languages converge on similar, flawed imitations of better type systems through tools and repurposed syntax. Thank you for confirming. Do you have any recommendations or warnings regarding general languages which reach in the opposite direction? Reason[1] and F#[2] are both examples: they attach pre-existing ecosystems and compile-for-$PLATFORM tools to OCaml-like typing.... - Source: Hacker News / 8 months ago

Why not use https://reasonml.github.io/ instead? Or just use Typescript? Source: 12 months ago

Dwayne/elm-conduit is built from scratch using the full power of Elm, no holds barred. This is how I would architect and build a reliable, maintainable, and scalable production-ready Elm web application. - Source: dev.to / 11 days ago

Elm [1] is based on a similar idea. Build your app from pure functions that return HTML tags. [1] https://elm-lang.org/. - Source: Hacker News / about 1 month ago

Elm is a lovely lang. It would be nice to have modern APIs on it. here's the project for new eyes: https://github.com/elm/core. - Source: Hacker News / 2 months ago

You also wouldn't really be creating your own new programing language. You would be creating something that can run JavaScript by following JavaScript standards and syntax. You might be able to add some non-standard features of your own on top of those standards, or include your own standard library of helpers or utilities, but you can't completely make a new or alternative language and then load it in the... Source: 5 months ago

You should at least have a look at https://elm-lang.org/ it is a pure functional language like Haskell (although with fewer fancy syntax/type classes) but it has some lovely libraries for visualisation and even with plain elm (+ elm-ui) doing string transformations can be easily done. Source: 5 months ago