> > Will ELM ever be something I can replace Python with?
Evan has explicitly said that we won't be compiling to JS forever, and there is a lot of interest in Elm on the server side. So I think we can say that Elm will most likely become a general purpose language. That said, to my knowledge, nobody is working on a non-JS backend for Elm yet, so this is mostly the eventual future. Also should I be learning Haskell, Erlang, Elixir or other if I want to > develop my general purpose Functional Programming skills and stay on an ELM > pathway? Haskell is NOT a prerequisite for Elm, and unless you're planning on actually using Haskell (perhaps as a backend?), mixing the two might actually be confusing, since they're so similar but not identical. Learning these languages will help give you a broad view of programming, and will certainly be helpful in the backend. But Elm is very different from them, and if your goal is to stay on an Elm pathway, your best bet is probably to use Elm as much as you can. In particular, you could use Electron to make desktop applications with Elm, if that's what you're interested in. Good luck! On Sun, May 22, 2016 at 5:58 PM, julian ebeli <julian.em...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi All > I've just discovered ELM as part of a general interest in Functional > Programming. > I'm a Python programmer and have just recently started to do Python > Functionally, I'm a slow learner! > Will ELM ever be something I can replace Python with? > I realize its early days but is it part of the plan for this language or > will it be the best way to do SPAs > > Also should I be learning Haskell, Erlang, Elixir or other if I want to > develop my general purpose Functional Programming skills and stay on an ELM > pathway? > > Thanks > > > > > > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Elm Discuss" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to elm-discuss+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Elm Discuss" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to elm-discuss+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
