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Yes, aesthetics. Here is another one: : and :: are reversed. They have no intention of making them more similar- in fact I was told there is going to be more
by fallat 12y ago
Yes, aesthetics. Here is another one:
: and :: are reversed.
They have no intention of making them more similar- in fact I was told there is going to be more subtle diverging happening.
Elm was really cool for me too at first, but these subtleties are just a pain. I am now using haste (haste-lang.org), which seems to have really come a long way over the course of its 3 year life span. I highly recommend it to those wanting to use Haskell as a front-end web development language.
- rnhmjoj 12y agoWow, haste is great. Thank you for sharing.
- throwaway77221 12y agoCompletely agree. Not only these subtle changes but also the Evan's resistance to include common typeclasses and generally anti-intellectual attitude and rudeness have turned me off completely. Evan also plays favorites a lot and has a rather naive view of social justice (which he views himself as some kind of champion for). Purescript has now become my alternative but I will take a look at Haste (ghcjs may be another possibility to look into).
- throwaway19283 12y agoOh, yes, reversing : and :: makes it soooooo much easier for beginners to approach. The elm community is full of inane bikeshedding like this. I bet they spent days and even weeks arguing the merits of reversing these vs not reversing them.