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

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 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 :

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(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@gmail.com> wrote:

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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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