Hi, I have been exploring Elm for a few months now and I really like many things about it. Among other things, I appreciate the way effects are handled. I find it very logical and exemplary for a purely functional language. Now I am wondering which languages are similar to Elm and are also suitable…

Don’t discount Standard ML and OCaml. Maybe they’re not shiny new and hip, but these are educational and industrial workhorses for decades now. Standard ML is an elegant, feel-nice language like Elm (though, as a matter of taste, the syntax might not feel as elegant as Elm’s). It being academically…

Which languages would you say feel somewhat like Elm? I’d guess Green feels very similar right now as it hasn’t diverged too much yet. The only other language I’d guess is Gleam, though I haven’t written any since it hit 1.0 so I can’t say for certain. Roc is nice, though it doesn’t feel like El…

Now I am wondering which languages are similar to Elm and are also suitable for areas other than frontend development. Besides the ones you mentioned I’d like to add Gleam . It is a backend-first language (its main purpose was to compile to Erlang) inspired by Elm that targets Javascript as well. L…

[image] Maldus512: Off topic - what’s your fix/workaround/hack for this issue ? I just don’t user URLs in Tauri because there’s no URL for a user to edit. Just because it’s using HTML and JS internally doesn’t mean it needs to fit everything a browser does. If you must use URLs, then I think…

[image] Maldus512: Unfortunately the syntax is closer to procedural languages like rust, but for all intents and purposes it’s a purely functional programming language. Gleam is heavily inspired by Elm so it definitely fits into Elm-like languages, but I wanted to clarify this point. It is no…

Thank you for all the feedback. Improving my Elm knowledge and exploring elm-pages sounds good to me. In the long run Gren and Gleam (or perhaps OCaml) could be of interest.

[image] tomka: Now I am wondering which languages are similar to Elm and are also suitable for areas other than frontend development. Which languages would you say feel somewhat like Elm? Which languages do you use yourself? I am most interested in purely functional languages, but that is not a …

I really enjoyed digging into ReScript. useReducer with RS can feel very Elm-like without all extra glue code. fewer turtles to stack.

Elm is an amazing creative tool…

Haskell might seem scary but I don’t think it’s the boogeyman people make it out to be. If Elm isn’t breaking your brain, I don’t think Haskell will. If you spent a good week or two learning the basics, you can get plenty out of it. If you’re anything like me, you will find plenty of pieces of Elm w…

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I made two posts comparing Elm to PureScript and F#:

PureScript for Elm developers
F# for Elm developers

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