elmx

As I alluded to I think the HTML version is less weird because it is close to what you're going to see when you open your browser DevTools. So the JSX/HTML style requires less mental gymnastics overall. Also there are some things about Elm's DOM style in particular that are especially awkward, compared to other function-style dom creation syntax [0], like the [ ] everywhere. > The main difference is that the Elm "bracket soup" is just a composition of functions So is the JSX counterexample I gave, (it de-sugars to function calls), which is why elmx [1] can exist, and seems like an improvement to me. [0] https://github.com/hyperhype/hyperscript [1] https://github.com/pzavolinsky/elmx

Elm definitely tries painfully hard to be different, which is only exacerbated by its one-true-way attitude. Regarding HTML, you may want to look at elmx [0]. It accomplishes exactly what you described. [0] https://github.com/pzavolinsky/elmx