Comment by hshdhdhehd

1 day ago

Elm programming language. Arguably not dead but somewhat incomplete and not actively worked on.

A few commits recently.

There are lots of competing MLs you can use instead:

- F# (Fable)

- ReasonML

- OCaml (Bucklescript)

- Haskell

- PureScript

IMO the problem with Elm was actually The Elm Architecture.

It's been a number of years but my understanding was they kind of killed all the momentum it had by removing support for custom operators which broke everyone's code?

opa, along the same lines - really nice ML based language for isomorphic full stack web development.

  • Yeah, Opa was wildly ahead of its time, I actually just wrote a top level comment about it. Basically Next.js+TypeScript+modern ECMAScript features, but in 2011.