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I'd hope this is indicative of wasm precipitating a wave of creativity. From a purely technical point of view I actually don't care. Elm is fast, complete, el
by spinningslate 8y ago
I'd hope this is indicative of wasm precipitating a wave of creativity. From a purely technical point of view I actually don't care. Elm is fast, complete, elegant and has perhaps the most user-friendly compiler on the planet. The fact it happens to target js and not wasm (at this point) is practically irrelevant.
I can see, though, that wasm might encourage experimentation by a wider group of people who are put off by targetting js.
Coming back to Elm, it'd be great to see others consider the wider architectural questions. The Elm architecture and language are beautifully complementary. That's stark when looking at react - which was copied from (or at least inspired by) the Elm architecture. However, being js-based, it doesn't have the mutual consistency of elm - and so has to resort to syntactic gymnastics.
Anyway, that's getting off topic. Grain is clearly early stage. Anyone motivated enough to conceive and deliver a language deserves some encouragement. Will be interesting to see how it evolves.