I haven't been live-tooting #ICFP, mostly because I'm already live-{Discord,Slack,Notion,Telegram,Signal}'ing, and I can only multi-task so much while also trying to understand the talks …
but holy shit the Wasm talk by Andreas Rossberg1 was SO COOL
anyway, the last bit from my notes, is a bit more personal:
I’ve always been harping, for years, on how #OCaml and #JavaScript VMs are just such a surprisingly-fantastic, low-impedance match (see the whole #Melange, #BuckleScript, #ReScript, category — they're fantastic to use in practice); …
but now i’m learning that Wasm is … basically OCaml’s semantics, EVEN MORE DIRECTLY, in a bunch of cases, lmao.
Hi, as a #FunctionalProgramming beginner, I'd appreciate any guidance. Links to in-depth discussion, examples, and summaries would be great. I'm pretty fine with #JavaScript overall, and have used some FP features, but strict FP is new to me.