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I don't know if the authors of this proposal are here, but I wonder if they have heard of Elm: http://elm-lang.org/ http://elm-lang.org/ If they are not comple
by rwl 11y ago
I don't know if the authors of this proposal are here, but I wonder if they have heard of Elm: http://elm-lang.org/ http://elm-lang.org/
If they are not completely married to Haskell, they might consider using Elm instead. Why? Like Haskell, it's a functional language in the ML family. It already has a browser-based IDE, and has a lot of built-in features that make it well-suited to writing the kinds of programs beginners might be interested in, like games.
Starting with Elm, the authors would be a lot closer to their goals; they could focus on just implementing the concept of "unlockable" features in the existing Elm IDE.
- psibi 11y agoYes, they know about Elm. They have mentioned it in the article.
- vezzy-fnord 11y agoLike Haskell, it's a functional language in the ML family. Haskell isn't in the ML family. It's a successor to the concepts used in David Turner's languages (but more specifically Miranda), themselves born out of a language named Hope that came out nearly the same time as ML.