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Elm is doing some really cool things, but I personally prefer Haskell and a proper FRP library like reflex [1] compiled to javascript with GHCJS. It is newer, so it doesn't have the flashiness and polish that Elm has in some places, but I feel like it's built on a more solid foundation.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mYvkcskJbc4

⬐ akurilin

We should see a lot more action from the frontend Haskell camp once GHC 7.10.2 drops and stack begins to support building ghcjs. The next 12 months will be an exciting time. Some discussion about it here: https://github.com/commercialhaskell/stack/issues/337

⬐ ryantrinkle

Speaker here; slides are available at https://obsidian.systems/reflex-nyhug/

⬐ mightybyte

This talk gives one of the best descriptions I've ever seen of the motivations for why FRP (Functional Reactive Programming) is useful. All the other explanations I've seen are too much in the weeds, but this is clear, concise, and understandable.

This part 1 video goes through practical examples and gives a nice intro for what it's like to use the library. He even walks through integrating a live tweet stream right into the presentation. It's pretty fun to see the audience tweets appear on-screen in real time.