[Haskell-cafe] off-topic question: why invent new Haskell-like compile-to-js functional languages when we have awesome js_of_ocaml ?

[Charlie Paul]

I tried it about a month ago, and the vagrant install method was easy and
straightforward, if slow. They plan to cabalize it as well.


On Mon, Nov 11, 2013 at 11:32 AM, Ömer Sinan Ağacan <omeragacan at gmail.com>wrote:

> I'm aware of this, but when I first tried it a few months ago, it was
> not easy to use at all. Is it changed now?
>
> ---
> Ömer Sinan Ağacan
> http://osa1.net
>
>
> 2013/11/11 Charlie Paul <charlieap at gmail.com>:
> >> (I'm assuming we won't have JS backend for GHC anytime soon)
> >
> > You would be somewhat mistaken. Just beware of compiling huge packages
> with
> > it.
> >
> >
> > On Mon, Nov 11, 2013 at 11:28 AM, Ömer Sinan Ağacan <
> omeragacan at gmail.com>
> > wrote:
> >>
> >> Hi all,
> >>
> >> Sorry for off-topic question, I'm asking this question here because as
> >> Haskell community we invent lots of new Haskell-like(sometimes a
> >> subset of Haskell like Fay, sometimes different languages with Haskell
> >> syntax and Haskell-like features like Elm and recent language with row
> >> polymorphic records -- I don't remember it's name) languages. What I'm
> >> wondering is that js_of_ocaml project looks like solving all problems
> >> we have. It's supports 100% of OCaml(it translates OCaml bytecode),
> >> and OCaml is arguably better than all languages we invented(awesome
> >> module system, records, strict by default, all OCaml libraries(except
> >> FFI ones) work, like functional data structures, parser generators
> >> etc.)
> >>
> >> (I'm assuming we won't have JS backend for GHC anytime soon)
> >>
> >> So in short, I don't understand why use Haskell like compile-to-js
> >> languages instead of js_of_ocaml (other than learning purposes -- JS
> >> may be a nice high-level target language to practice writing compilers
> >> etc.)
> >>
> >> Please note that I'm not using any compile-to-js languages in my work,
> >> so I may not be able to make a fair comparison, but to me all other
> >> compile-to-js langauges look worse after seeing js_of_ocaml. Of
> >> course, if I had a JS backend for GHC(which would mean compiling
> >> Haskell to JS with all extensions) it would be best solution, but for
> >> now I think js_of_ocaml is superior to all other solutions.
> >>
> >> I'm wondering your opinions about this.
> >>
> >> Thanks,
> >>
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> >> Ömer Sinan Ağacan
> >> http://osa1.net
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