I constantly hear about research into functional programming, and even real things coming out of them, like certain programming languages (idris).
Is there anything like this for frontend UI dev? It doesn’t have to be FP related.
On the web, there’s semantic HTML and Web Content Accessibility Guidelines which focus on making content for the Internet as broadly interoperable and accessible as possible. The former from a technical point of view, the latter from a human interaction point of view. They go together hand on hand.
Concepts like Reactive programming are widely used in web/UI contexts. The problem of connecting a UI to an underlying data set is not trivial. Several frameworks deal with this.
As was already said, concerns like Accessibility are studied academically. They have more to do with user experience than the technology, so not sure if they match your question.
Have you looked at Elm?
It’s very much not JavaScript, but I think that comes with the territory of wanting something significantly different.
For what it’s worth, with wasm you could use any language that compiles to it as a frontend language. Rust has a few frameworks that can compile to standalone wasm web pages.
I’m confused why everyone sleeps on Purescript. I mean, it is currently QUITE obscure… I could be wrong but I feel like Purescript has all of the same goals as Elm but better.
I also sleep on elm, JavaScript and typescript. (i.e. don’t use then)
It’s simply that I never heard of purescript.
At the rate frontend spits frameworks and languages it’s pointless to write papers for it. Innovation on that field happens by bruteforce.
“innovation”
