Between /r/elm and slack, we came to a nice conclusion on all this :)

Just wanted to let folks know here!


On Thursday, April 27, 2017 at 1:50:30 PM UTC-7, Evan wrote:
>
> I'm not sure I understand exactly what this has to do with Elm.
>
> Based on this example <https://wende.github.io/elmchemy/stable/> this 
> appears to be a transpiler that uses syntax *similar* to Elm.
>
> For example:
>
>    1. In the pattern matches, you pattern match on tuples without the 
>    open and close parens. So this is not valid Elm code. 
>    2. It appears that the ffi function is allowing you to bring in impure 
>    Elixir functions. So now effects are not captured in the types.
>
> The second one in particular is such a divergence from the core design of 
> Elm that I don't see how it makes sense to call it by the same name. So 
> again, this does not appear to be related to Elm except in that the syntax 
> is similar. Is that a correct assessment?
>
> On Thursday, April 27, 2017 at 1:42:38 PM UTC-7, Krzysztof Wende wrote:
>>
>> Hello there everyone
>>
>> I think my project is ready enough to share it with you all.
>>
>> I'm a diehard longtime Erlang / Elixir programmer, and I always searched 
>> for a way to write static typing for Erlang.
>> After 5th attempts to implement Hindley-Milner on Elixir's AST I decided 
>> that it's time to try something else.
>>
>> So here it is:
>>
>>
>> https://www.reddit.com/r/elm/comments/67v2so/elm_on_fully_distributed_backend_meet_elmchemy/
>>  
>> <https://www.google.com/url?q=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.reddit.com%2Fr%2Felm%2Fcomments%2F67v2so%2Felm_on_fully_distributed_backend_meet_elmchemy%2F&sa=D&sntz=1&usg=AFQjCNGPNzBt63GPnKOOKZW10Qfj90owgQ>
>>
>> Elm to Elixir compiler.
>> Please enjoy, and please contribute!
>>
>> Constructive critique welcome
>>
>> PS. Yes. I am aware of alpaca-lang and purerl. I'll gladly answer why I'm 
>> not satisfied enough with these to anyone wondering
>>
>

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