Re: [elm-discuss] What languages do you write your back-ends in?

2016-09-13 Thread John Orford
what libs do you use to that? how idiomatic is it in the end? On Sun, 11 Sep 2016 at 20:55 Eric G wrote: > Python at the moment (on Google App Engine), increasingly written in a > Elm-y/monadic style ;) > > > On Sunday, September 11, 2016 at 12:36:03 PM UTC-4, John Mayer

Re: [elm-discuss] What languages do you write your back-ends in?

2016-09-10 Thread Jim Freeze
It depends on your goals for the backend. If you want distributed and fault tolerant systems, Elixir/Erlang is proven in that space for the last 30 years - as they both run on the BEAM. (I'm livin' the dream. I have the BEAM). There are others that can explain this much better than myself, but

Re: [elm-discuss] What languages do you write your back-ends in?

2016-09-10 Thread Dave Rapin
Elixir is compiled to bytecode similar to how a JVM language like Closure or Scala is. So not quite like C but similar to Elm. Also I assume you're taking about dynamic types which it has unlike Elm's type system. I've heard however that Elixir's safer than your usual dynamic language due to

Re: [elm-discuss] What languages do you write your back-ends in?

2016-09-10 Thread Joey Eremondi
I used Haskell, but it's been a while since I've had a chance to work on an app with a backend... On Sep 10, 2016 8:57 AM, "Mario Sangiorgio" wrote: > Being compiled doesn't really mean that the compiler helps the programmer. > There is the need for a good type system

Re: [elm-discuss] What languages do you write your back-ends in?

2016-09-10 Thread Mario Sangiorgio
Being compiled doesn't really mean that the compiler helps the programmer. There is the need for a good type system and from what I see here Elixir is a bit lacking on this regards: Elixir is a dynamically typed language, so

Re: [elm-discuss] What languages do you write your back-ends in?

2016-09-10 Thread Jim Freeze
Elixir is a compiled language. If you need performance your best option to fully utilize your hardware is the BEAM and OTP. Sent from my iPhone > On Sep 10, 2016, at 2:41 AM, Mario Sangiorgio > wrote: > > Hello, > > I was wondering what programming language you

[elm-discuss] What languages do you write your back-ends in?

2016-09-10 Thread Mario Sangiorgio
Hello, I was wondering what programming language you use to implement the back-end for your Elm single page web app. Reading around I see that the Elm/Elixir combo is popular but for how much I think BEAM is an awesome VM I'm a bit sceptical due to Elixir being a dynamic language. How much do