In my dev team, we eschew WebSockets as it somewhat bastardises the HTTP/REST architecture. (F)RP is clearly a great UX model, but it can't be done properly wit

In my dev team, we eschew WebSockets as it somewhat bastardises the HTTP/REST architecture. (F)RP is clearly a great UX model, but it can't be done properly without state being pushed to the client (faking it with polling doesn't really cut it)... That said, as a Haskell convert, I really like the look of Elm, but can it do backend communication via traditional XMLHTTPRequest? EDIT I guess this[1] answers my question. Gonna have to get into this... [1] http://package.elm-lang.org/packages/elm-lang/core/1.1.0/Http http://package.elm-lang.org/packages/elm-lang/core/1.1.0/Htt...