I'm not sure if Elm does what Svelte and Imba does on the optimization side for fast VirtualDOM rendering but I have read an article stating that the unoptimized (unkeyed) virtual DOM used in Elm is way faster than those used in React or Vue. Now this was a rather old article that was benchmarking using Elm 0.17 (we are now in Elm 0.19.1). So I don't know if this is still the case but I guess FP helps a lot in the optimization process.
I have been intrigued by ReasonML for a while. I love the project. I am not the best fan of the syntax but you can virtually do anything with the FFI capabilities of the language and with time (using Haskell & Elm) the syntax barrier begins to fade away.
The article you linked was very interesting! And I didn't know about Imba. I'll sure be playing with it. Looks promising too!
The interesting thing about the article for me was not so much Imba but the huge performance differences. Those differences do not just impact the end user of the app, but also the developer, because development becomes much more simple.
It's so fast that there's no more need for clever tricks or complicated techniques to optimize speed of your app - even if you just use plain and simple JS arrays and objects and mutate things willy-nilly it's still fast enough. That was really an eye opener for me.
What I notice about ReasonML though is that you aren't hearing a lot about it, it hasn't been able to break out of its tiny niche. It's not become mainstream, far from it.
The problem for all of these JS alternatives (Elm, Imba, ReasonML) is the small community and ecosystem compared to the established incumbent, Javascript.
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I'm not sure if Elm does what Svelte and Imba does on the optimization side for fast VirtualDOM rendering but I have read an article stating that the unoptimized (unkeyed) virtual DOM used in Elm is way faster than those used in React or Vue. Now this was a rather old article that was benchmarking using Elm 0.17 (we are now in Elm 0.19.1). So I don't know if this is still the case but I guess FP helps a lot in the optimization process.
I have been intrigued by ReasonML for a while. I love the project. I am not the best fan of the syntax but you can virtually do anything with the FFI capabilities of the language and with time (using Haskell & Elm) the syntax barrier begins to fade away.
The article you linked was very interesting! And I didn't know about Imba. I'll sure be playing with it. Looks promising too!
The interesting thing about the article for me was not so much Imba but the huge performance differences. Those differences do not just impact the end user of the app, but also the developer, because development becomes much more simple.
It's so fast that there's no more need for clever tricks or complicated techniques to optimize speed of your app - even if you just use plain and simple JS arrays and objects and mutate things willy-nilly it's still fast enough. That was really an eye opener for me.
What I notice about ReasonML though is that you aren't hearing a lot about it, it hasn't been able to break out of its tiny niche. It's not become mainstream, far from it.
The problem for all of these JS alternatives (Elm, Imba, ReasonML) is the small community and ecosystem compared to the established incumbent, Javascript.