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Yes, aesthetics. Here is another one:

: and :: are reversed.

They have no intention of making them more similar- in fact I was told there is going to be more subtle diverging happening.

Elm was really cool for me too at first, but these subtleties are just a pain. I am now using haste (haste-lang.org), which seems to have really come a long way over the course of its 3 year life span. I highly recommend it to those wanting to use Haskell as a front-end web development language.



Wow, haste is great. Thank you for sharing.


Completely agree. Not only these subtle changes but also the Evan's resistance to include common typeclasses and generally anti-intellectual attitude and rudeness have turned me off completely. Evan also plays favorites a lot and has a rather naive view of social justice (which he views himself as some kind of champion for).

Purescript has now become my alternative but I will take a look at Haste (ghcjs may be another possibility to look into).




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