I've wanted something like this for quite a long time. I've spent quite a bit of...

totalperspectiv · on Aug 18, 2018

If you like his stuff, I've been working through a book he wrote about implementing scheme, which has been very helpful in understanding the why's of lisp.

http://billhails.net/Book/front.html

specializeded · on Aug 18, 2018

Oooooooh, have you heard of Reason[1]? It’s an algol-ish interface for OCaml, supported and used by FB as well!

Also interops with JS (and has superb bindings for React) so immediate results/learning are very easy to get.

[1] - https://reasonml.github.io

sattoshi · on Aug 18, 2018

It doesn't have bindings for redux. I really wanted to like it but without redux, it's not practical enough with so few bindings.

The messenger people don't know what to do about that either, really.

I really like the language though so it's a shame.

phillipcarter · on Aug 18, 2018

Have you taken a look at Fable? There's a React-Redux sample here: http://fable.io/samples-browser/

But the real zen of Fable is using fable-elmish, which is a UI library that (like Elm) focuses on message passing. It's super elegant.

Good sample app doing nontrivial stuff: https://github.com/SAFE-Stack/SAFE-Chat

(Bonus is that it's full-stack F# :))

lilactown · on Aug 18, 2018

What is it about Redux that you need?

sattoshi · on Aug 19, 2018

I need a store layer which scales. Mobx could work too, but reason would work more naturally with redux.

weberc2 · on Aug 18, 2018

I have! Sadly it’s native compilation story was pretty poor last I checked. Mostly it seemed like the primary target was bucklescript. There were other issues as well.

disqard · on Aug 18, 2018

Ah, until I read your"EDIT", I was about to ask the creator why the following binding ends in a semicolon:

define y = 12;

but the following one does not:

define fn(x) = { ... }