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jimbokun on Feb 19, 2018 | parent | context | favorite | on: Elm changed my mind about unpopular languages

Not sure how Elm interacts with Javascript libraries, but JVM languages can generally use any existing Java libraries. So a language built on a popular run time (JVM, .Net VM, guess there's exactly two), can still have excellent library support.

krotton on Feb 20, 2018 [–]

...or Node.js nowadays, so three, I guess.

Elm nicely abstracts over JS interoperability with a mechanism called ports: https://guide.elm-lang.org/interop/javascript.html

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