On Wed, Dec 28, 2016 at 6:40 AM, GordonBGood <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> But we stray from the subject of "Elm as fast as JavaScript"...
>

In my memory, Evan said that Elm can *potentially* be faster than JS. This
means some future where Elm is wide enough spread and wasm wide enough
adopted to have the resources and the context for an efficient compiler
that bypasses JS. This is years away so... what are we discussing here?

Personally, I believe in the mantra of "Make It Work, Make It Right, Make
It Fast".

Elm's speed is not a show stopper for the vast majority of Elm developers.
Sure, it might prevent some potential users from taking Elm seriously for
certain tasks but... what is better? catering for the needs of a very small
set of potential users or catering for the needs of the vast majority of
actual Elm users?

My point is that I love the practicality of Elm with its simple yet
> functional syntax and would like never to be forced to use JavaScript or
> even Typescript again, but am forced to do so for certain types of
> applications due to these inefficiencies.


Or you can look at it from the other way: for certain types of applications
you can *already* use a practical, simple language (Elm). :)


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