thanks to tinytools.directory and my own unwillingness to go to bed, stayed up late looking at
* ink [ https://www.inklestudios.com/ink/ ] a very high powered story engine
* haxe [ https://haxe.org/ ] which compiles to literally a dozen languages and looks like this:
class Main {
static public function main():Void {
trace("Hello World");
}
}
* reason [ https://reasonml.github.io/ ] which is isomorphic to OCaml ?? maybe? but compiles to javascript too b/c it's the 3rd millenium
also Elm b/c for some reason when I learned about Elm way back when I thought it didn't have static typechecking
you can tell Reason is good because the very first page of the documentation links away (!) to Rust, Elm, Purescript, and others, which tells you that someone is actively trying to *not* make their docs a good conversion funnel
@confusedcharlot comes from a marketing/sales approach - salespeople "convert" leads into "sales". with modern analytics you can graph it out like
10 000 people saw the ad
1 000 people visited the site
100 people browsed the catalog
10 people put an item in their cart
1 person actually bought something
0.1 person becomes a repeat customer
(yielding a kind of pyramid/funnel shape)
at each step, you're trying to convert as many people to the next step / funnel them towards buying something
so execs ask questions like "why is the conversion rate on the checkout page so low" (= abandoned shopping carts / aborted orders) and the answer is "because our hyperactive 'fraud detection' 'algorithm' bans a lot of real customers [if they typo their card # twice, they're a pirate??], plus our servers that validate card numbers crash a lot"
then they ask you to rewrite the checkout interface in ReactJS
@confusedcharlot @octopus
My language is the best, there is nothing else in the world for you to see but the purity of it. Now, join the church and burn all your other bibles.