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by appsappsapps 9y ago
Isn't Elm built on top of maybe the most mainstream "platform"? JavaScript? If all else fails you can glue in some JavaScript via its ports system[1]. [1]Languages like PureScript provide a much more convenient FFI for this g
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by appsappsapps 9y ago
The best ideas are those that you can share between languages. When you get hung up on idioms, or when you recreate idioms that don't matter in another language, that's where the problems are. Exposure to a lot of languages allow
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by appsappsapps 10y ago
The "no" was probably aimed at the fact that you were splitting hairs against their use of "sequence". Optional can generally be thought of as a "sequence" of one or zero values. You could use an array of &quot
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by appsappsapps 10y ago
Elm on the frontend and Haskell on the backend is a sensible choice, though at that point you may be better off with PureScript on the frontend.
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by appsappsapps 10y ago
Every single comment here is focused on just one aspect of this article: speed. Far more interesting points the article covers are around _how_ Elm optimizes and _how_ developers optimize Elm code. From the conclusion: - Optimizing Elm only
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On Dynamism(noodlesoft.com)
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by appsappsapps 10y ago
Curious: what is your definition of performance and how do you view this complaint?
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by appsappsapps 10y ago
What typed languages have you used and what aspects do you find tedious? I find that the experience of writing brittle type-checking logic and tests in dynamic languages is rather tedious in its own right.
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by appsappsapps 13y ago
I'm not sure what you're getting at with "useful," but it looks like it's going to be incredibly fun to play with, and I wish it were available when I was a kid messing around with HyperCard stacks.
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by appsappsapps 13y ago
What about Dwarf Fortress?
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by appsappsapps 13y ago
First two tries: ~ % curl "http://api.genderize.io?name=pat" {"pat":null}% Shouldn't that be "unisex"? ~ % curl "http://api.genderize.io?name=patricia" {"p
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by appsappsapps 13y ago
I saw a couple engineers from Craigslist present at a Mongo event within the last year, and they strangely acted as if Mongo were a joke—that is, they treated it like a playground, continuously talked about how and where it broke, and con