Applying the "finally tagless, partially evaluated" style to a D3 eDSL
See README for my other repo https://github.com/afcondon/purescript-d3v4 for background on D3 in Purescript
See README for this repo https://github.com/afcondon/purescript-finally-tagless-ex for references on finally tagless DSLs in Purescript
TL;DR wrapping the D3 JavaScript API slavishly has drawbacks, but making an interpreted language leads to lots of visual noise due to tag syntax. Adopting finally tagless approach promises to be really nice but it's a work in progress.
I think it's impossible to express all of D3 in a typed way without adding
unacceptable amounts of syntactic noise. However, the tagless approach would
allow for us to write some syntactic checking at some point so that a kind of
lint could be provided for D3 scripts w/o introducing the overhead of
additional syntax