I’ve been building a Purescript Deku/Hyrule front end and Haskell back end app for a while. Obviously, even with the best codegen, it is an ever-present problem keeping my types aligned between the back and front end and making sure there’s no corner cases in the API I am constructing.
Anyway, I’ve always had my eye on Unison for the back end…and as it hit 1.0 recently, I looked into the project. Picture that meme of the man walking with his girlfriend and looking back at another woman. That woman is Unison perhaps. 
Anyway, I started to look into porting my back end into Unison and it doesn’t actually seem that bad. However, they (unlike us) don’t seem to have much in way of strong front end libraries available. Is that an opportunity for cross-pollination? Or are we too different for that to be possible? I’m pretty sure that’s the case but both of our syntax are MLesque…
What do the Purescript community and devs think of this project? And what do you think are the ramifications of it? Do you think there’s any opportunity for wiring our front end tools to the Unison ecosystem?
I’ll keep building with the tools I have (and I sincerely love Purescript) but I’ll always have an eye toward new ideas…and Unison is surely one. Or perhaps an old idea that we haven’t seen done quite like that…