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> I wish all these alt-JS-haskellish language authors (of PureScript, Elm, Roy, etc.) would just work on making GHCJS better. All three of those have very diff

> I wish all these alt-JS-haskellish language authors (of PureScript, Elm, Roy, etc.) would just work on making GHCJS better. All three of those have very different goals and trade-offs from GHCJS. I agree that it would be nice to share more work/knowledge though. One of the nice things about AltJS is that several languages can coexist in the same codebase.

ablesearcher 11y ago
> "All three of those have very different goals and trade-offs from GHCJS." And therein lies the problem. In my view, the most important goal is to have at least one really good AltJS-Haskellish language with a fully-featured ecosystem of libraries. (I'm fine if that language is PureScript, btw. PureScript is fantastic.) The problem -- which Clojure and Scala programmers seem to have sorted -- is that our community is too small to support several Haskellish-AltJS compilers. Do we really want several perpetually nascent solutions? > "One of the nice things about AltJS is that several languages can coexist in the same codebase." Theoretically, you're right. But how many production code bases are there in AltJS-Haskell (vs. say, Clojurescript)?
- galfarragem 11y ago
  Normally very smart people have an huge ego and hate politics. It's always a pity to see so much potential wasted.