I would be very interested to hear why Dark moved ...
# thinking-togethere
Edward de Jong / Beads Project
02/27/2019, 1:29 AMI would be very interested to hear why Dark moved away from Elm to ReasonML as your front end development language.
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pbiggar
02/27/2019, 2:13 AMBasically, Elm 0.19 was a killer because it removed Native code.
pbiggar
02/27/2019, 2:14 AMSince we’ve been on Reason, building the app has been so much easier, actually
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stevekrouse
02/27/2019, 9:23 AM
Huh, fascinating. I hadn't heard any Reason success stories yet
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pbiggar
02/27/2019, 5:59 PMIt is a bit new I guess
pbiggar
02/27/2019, 5:59 PMWhen we started 2 years ago, it was a bit too immature to use
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Edward de Jong / Beads Project
03/02/2019, 2:00 AMTIL that OCaml is one of the only languages with a time travel debugger. This is a very important and wonderful feature that is nearly impossible to achieve in languages like Java and Python. I often hear of OCaml in academic contexts, as i believe it has a strong user base in Cambridge. Been around for a while.
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