Suggestion: use Elm to simplify homepage development
unquietwiki opened this issue · 5 comments
https://elm-lang.org/ might be useful to replace a lot of the HTML code; http://builtwithelm.co/ has some examples.
It might also open up an avenue to explore using Nim meta-programming for Elm?
Elm is a functional language that compiles to JavaScript.
As this is the Nim project, we prefer to use Nim :)
I don't understand what you mean by replacing HTML code. Do you mean server-side or client-side generation?
I think the current static HTML is doing its job fine. It's the fastest, most accessible and most secure option you can have 🙂
It's not like we're adding new features to the website often either.
Our website used to use a website generator written in Nim and will eventually return to that. No need for Elm or Hugo or ...
@trustable-code @Calinou @Araq That's fair. I wanted to see if it was a chance to practice on both, and make use of features in one, the other may not have. I also realize that Nim metaprogramming handles HTML just fine.
@trustable-code @Calinou @Araq That's fair. I wanted to see if it was a chance to practice on both, and make use of features in one, the other may not have. I also realize that Nim metaprogramming handles HTML just fine.
Maybe you don't know, but Nim also has a JS backend for writing website frontends :)