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it's certainly not in the 0.19.1 compiler, but yeah you can compile anything into anything when you're the compiler writer (and he's a not bad compiler writer).

Lamdera, fwiw, is storing Elm states in a database right now. It's a closed source fork of the Elm compiler. It's honestly amazing, and it may be what Jeffs the official Elm on the DB. IDK.



I wasn't aware this was a current capability of Elm. I didn't see it advertised anywhere on its web pages or docs. I thought maybe I missed something, or if it's something only known to those on the Elm mailing list.

But it sounds like Elm is relatively easy to rewrite/reconfigure a backend to target a different language.

Thanks for the lead on Lamdera, which is helpful.


> I wasn't aware this was a current capability of Elm.

If it is it's a capability of a branch of the compiler that only exists on Evan's laptop

> something only known to those on the Elm mailing list.

As far as I know there is no Elm mailing list.

> But it sounds like Elm is relatively easy to rewrite/reconfigure a backend to target a different language.

I don't think it targets LLVM or anything, so you're gonna be on your own for that.




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