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What's a good alternative to Elm?

ggregoire 10y ago
JavaScript?
jweir 10y ago
I don't know if it is good, but there is http://www.purescript.org/ http://www.purescript.org/ Maybe look into https://github.com/clojure/clojurescript https://github.com/clojure/clojurescript ?
ModernMech 10y ago
Eve looks like it is filling the same sort of role: http://programming.witheve.com http://programming.witheve.com
coolsunglasses 10y ago
PureScript, BuckleScript, and GHCJS, are all good options depending on your risk sensitivity and lang preference.
srparish 10y ago
Language wise scala.js[1] with cats[2] or scalaz[3]. The FRP story there is unfortunately more complicated. 1| https://www.scala-js.org/ https://www.scala-js.org/ 2| http://typelevel.org/cats/ http://typelevel.org/cats/ 3| http://scalaz.github.io/scalaz/ http://scalaz.github.io/scalaz/
- sjrd 10y ago
  You can go with the Diode [1] library for an Elm/Redux-like architecture. And with that you don't need to all the way down to cats or scalaz (although you sure always can if you want to). [1] https://github.com/ochrons/diode https://github.com/ochrons/diode
  - kod 10y ago
    Take two average JS programmers. Hand one of them the Elm docs, the other the Diode docs. What do you expect will happen?
    - magic_quotes 10y ago
      Both will continue using typescript/redux/react combo. Scala.js mostly makes sense if you are already familiar with scala, that's hardly surprising.
elbear 10y ago
Depends on what you're looking for. Keep in mind that the OP came to Elm with a Haskell mindset. Elm is simpler than Haskell (yes, at the cost of some boilerplate). If you program in JavaScript and you want a language with no runtime exceptions, go for Elm. If you want type classes, go for PureScript.
Paradigma11 10y ago
http://fable.io/ http://fable.io/
seliopou 10y ago
For nearly half a decade, you have been able to compile OCaml[0] to JavaScript with js_of_ocaml[1]. For a comparison of writing native bindings for both Elm and OCaml (and some TodoMVC code that uses them), check out elm-d3[2], and ocaml-d3[3]. elm-d3 predates the virtual-dom library and was therefore the first Elm library to provide a direct interface to HTML. It also predates the removal of signals in 0.18, so it needs to be ported. Been having some difficulty with that. I've had the native code blessing to publish it for a couple years, but never have. [0]: http://ocaml.org/ http://ocaml.org/ [1]: http://ocsigen.org/js_of_ocaml/ http://ocsigen.org/js_of_ocaml/ [2]: https://github.com/seliopou/elm-d3 https://github.com/seliopou/elm-d3 [3]: https://github.com/seliopou/ocaml-d3 https://github.com/seliopou/ocaml-d3

JavaScript?

jweir 10y ago

I don't know if it is good, but there is http://www.purescript.org/ http://www.purescript.org/ Maybe look into https://github.com/clojure/clojurescript https://github.com/clojure/clojurescript ?

ModernMech 10y ago

Eve looks like it is filling the same sort of role: http://programming.witheve.com http://programming.witheve.com

coolsunglasses 10y ago

PureScript, BuckleScript, and GHCJS, are all good options depending on your risk sensitivity and lang preference.

srparish 10y ago

Language wise scala.js[1] with cats[2] or scalaz[3]. The FRP story there is unfortunately more complicated. 1| https://www.scala-js.org/ https://www.scala-js.org/ 2| http://typelevel.org/cats/ http://typelevel.org/cats/ 3| http://scalaz.github.io/scalaz/ http://scalaz.github.io/scalaz/

sjrd 10y ago
You can go with the Diode [1] library for an Elm/Redux-like architecture. And with that you don't need to all the way down to cats or scalaz (although you sure always can if you want to). [1] https://github.com/ochrons/diode https://github.com/ochrons/diode
- kod 10y ago
  Take two average JS programmers. Hand one of them the Elm docs, the other the Diode docs. What do you expect will happen?
  - magic_quotes 10y ago
    Both will continue using typescript/redux/react combo. Scala.js mostly makes sense if you are already familiar with scala, that's hardly surprising.

elbear 10y ago

Depends on what you're looking for. Keep in mind that the OP came to Elm with a Haskell mindset. Elm is simpler than Haskell (yes, at the cost of some boilerplate). If you program in JavaScript and you want a language with no runtime exceptions, go for Elm. If you want type classes, go for PureScript.

Paradigma11 10y ago

http://fable.io/ http://fable.io/

seliopou 10y ago

For nearly half a decade, you have been able to compile OCaml[0] to JavaScript with js_of_ocaml[1]. For a comparison of writing native bindings for both Elm and OCaml (and some TodoMVC code that uses them), check out elm-d3[2], and ocaml-d3[3]. elm-d3 predates the virtual-dom library and was therefore the first Elm library to provide a direct interface to HTML. It also predates the removal of signals in 0.18, so it needs to be ported. Been having some difficulty with that. I've had the native code blessing to publish it for a couple years, but never have. [0]: http://ocaml.org/ http://ocaml.org/ [1]: http://ocsigen.org/js_of_ocaml/ http://ocsigen.org/js_of_ocaml/ [2]: https://github.com/seliopou/elm-d3 https://github.com/seliopou/elm-d3 [3]: https://github.com/seliopou/ocaml-d3 https://github.com/seliopou/ocaml-d3