I am not saying that everything is going to be super easy to do this way but tak...

the_gipsy · on Jan 10, 2019

If you absolutely must run unsafe JS interop inline then maybe Elm is not for you, but it doesn't make its approach "silly".

You can run absolutely any JS code, just through the ports API. Trivial things like Math.PI are in the core[1] or some package.

[1] https://package.elm-lang.org/packages/elm-lang/core/5.1.1/Ba...

StreamBright · on Jan 10, 2019

Again, I could not care less what is in core (which might not be there anymore without a deprecation warning) but I want to use JS functions if I need to. How hard is to understand these requirements?

the_gipsy · on Jan 10, 2019

As I said, yoy can use any JS function with Elm. It’s just through ports, not inline.

yakshaving_jgt · on Jan 10, 2019

No, it is not silly. It is referential transparency.