On: Learning Elm by porting a medium-sized web frontend from React (2019)

[ordinaryradical]

Reason is a lovely, OCaml-esque language in the same functional vein, but I would say Gren feels like a great spiritual successor to Elm.

https://gren-lang.org/

[josephcsible → ordinaryradical]

Gren is a fork, not a spiritual successor. And not only did it not fix that problem, it made it worse: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36275171

[matsemann → josephcsible]

Perhaps because it's not the big problem a few people make it out to be..

[ordinaryradical → josephcsible]

Yeah, I just read this further down in this topic. Really bummed about it, Elm always seemed so promising, and I thought a healthy fork was what was needed.

I just don’t understand the reasoning for this choice.

[terminatornet → ordinaryradical]

along those lines, Zokka is a fork of elm that appears to be mostly dedicated towards bug fixes that Evan (the creator of elm) refuses to acknowledge or merge.

https://github.com/Zokka-Dev/zokka-compiler

edit: there's also Roc, https://www.roc-lang.org/, a language started by Richard Feldman who I believe was a former elm core team member. I think Roc aims to accomplish different things than elm, but definitely feels like a spiritual successor

[josephcsible → terminatornet]

The commitment to bidirectional compatibility means that Zokka can't fix the problem that GGP was talking about.