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In your opinion could Giraffe shape up to be a serious competitor to Phoenix Framework for mind share? If the F# community could get something like that off the

by Rapzid 9y ago

In your opinion could Giraffe shape up to be a serious competitor to Phoenix Framework for mind share? If the F# community could get something like that off the ground I think it would do wonders for the platform. Also, what's your opinion of Fable vs TypeScript as far as support for interacting with existing libraries? Fable sounds very appealing, however all the momentum behind TypeScript, its type features aimed at typing in-the-wild js code, and the massive defintely typed project are hard to pass over..

ReedCopsey 9y ago
One of the big strengths of Fable is that it can easily work with existing TypeScript bindings. ts2fable allows you to convert a TypeScript binding to be used with Fable, which allows you to leverage that mindshare easily.
- Rapzid 9y ago
  I was/am worried about the type gymnastics the TypeScript team has done to support in the wild code not being compatible with systems like scalajs and Fable(F#). Giving it another look now though, it's pretty promising seeing that Alfonso has implemented erased union types and even opened an issue to have them added to F# :)
zghst 9y ago
ML-based languages seems to be the trend these days, Facebook is getting behind ReasonML, I've seen a lot of progress with the F# community this year. It is my belief that time is on F#'s side.
phillipcarter 9y ago
> In your opinion could Giraffe shape up to be a serious competitor to Phoenix Framework for mind share? I think it can, yes. Although, it is not the only technology for this. The other libraries mentioned in the article are also wonderful, and I recommend using them. I'm not one to play favorites, but I do agree that something like this would be helpful for F# mindshare. > Also, what's your opinion of Fable vs TypeScript as far as support for interacting with existing libraries? I think Fable has its place to grow, even though TS is absolutely killing it right now. Eventually, you hit a bit of a wall with TS in that it's not really a functional programming language. I believe that a lot of people in the JS world are looking for an ML-style language, and F# through Fable fits the bill there.

by Rapzid 9y ago

ReedCopsey 9y ago

One of the big strengths of Fable is that it can easily work with existing TypeScript bindings. ts2fable allows you to convert a TypeScript binding to be used with Fable, which allows you to leverage that mindshare easily.

Rapzid 9y ago
I was/am worried about the type gymnastics the TypeScript team has done to support in the wild code not being compatible with systems like scalajs and Fable(F#). Giving it another look now though, it's pretty promising seeing that Alfonso has implemented erased union types and even opened an issue to have them added to F# :)

zghst 9y ago

ML-based languages seems to be the trend these days, Facebook is getting behind ReasonML, I've seen a lot of progress with the F# community this year. It is my belief that time is on F#'s side.

phillipcarter 9y ago

> In your opinion could Giraffe shape up to be a serious competitor to Phoenix Framework for mind share? I think it can, yes. Although, it is not the only technology for this. The other libraries mentioned in the article are also wonderful, and I recommend using them. I'm not one to play favorites, but I do agree that something like this would be helpful for F# mindshare. > Also, what's your opinion of Fable vs TypeScript as far as support for interacting with existing libraries? I think Fable has its place to grow, even though TS is absolutely killing it right now. Eventually, you hit a bit of a wall with TS in that it's not really a functional programming language. I believe that a lot of people in the JS world are looking for an ML-style language, and F# through Fable fits the bill there.