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Thanks for the suggestion. I've heard people suggesting Elm on reddit but in terms of learning materials there isn't much compared to haskell. But I think that

• piaste 6y ago
  > I know that Elm works great for front end but how is it for desktop and backend stuff? It isn't. It's explicitly designed as a purely web front-end language, that's its scope. Of course, many Elm users like to run another ML-family language in the backend as well. Haskell's Servant backend library, the one used in this article, has a project to automatically generate Elm client code [1]. Elixir is popular as well. But in general, I'd say that any backend framework that can provide an OpenAPI spec will work well, as you'll be able to auto-generate most if not all of the Elm client code (which is normally dull work and one of the main complaints about Elm). [1] https://github.com/haskell-servant/servant-elm https://github.com/haskell-servant/servant-elm
• tasuki 6y ago
  Yes, no desktop and backend. It might be possible to use Elm outside of web frontend, but probably wouldn't be much fun. > in terms of learning materials there isn't much compared to haskell. To whet your apetite, see https://elm-lang.org/ https://elm-lang.org/ Then read through the excellent https://guide.elm-lang.org/ https://guide.elm-lang.org/ - not very long but absolutely enough to hit the ground running.
  • girishso 6y ago
    Agreed official elm guide is more than enough to get “started” with real world examples.