diff --git a/src/experiments/inlineListFromArray.ts b/src/experiments/inlineListFromArray.ts
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..77c63d7
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/experiments/inlineListFromArray.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,68 @@
+import ts from 'typescript';
+
+// `
+//   var _List_Nil = { $: "[]" };
+
+//   function _List_Cons(hd, tl) {
+//     return { $: "::", a: hd, b: tl };
+//   }
+
+//   var _List_cons = F2(_List_Cons);
+
+//   function _List_fromArray(arr) {
+//     var out = _List_Nil;
+//     for (var i = arr.length; i--; ) {
+//       out = _List_Cons(arr[i], out);
+//     }
+//     return out;
+//   }
+// `;
+// `
+//       _List_fromArray([
+//        "a",
+//         "b",
+//         "c",
+//       ])
+// `;
+
+const LIST_FROM_ARRAY_F_NAME = '_List_fromArray';
+const LIST_NIL_NAME = '_List_Nil';
+const LIST_CONS_F_NAME = '_List_cons';
+
+const listNil = ts.createIdentifier(LIST_NIL_NAME);
+const listConsCall = ts.createIdentifier(LIST_CONS_F_NAME);
+
+const appendToFront = (
+  expression: ts.Expression,
+  list: ts.Expression
+): ts.Expression => {
+  return ts.createCall(listConsCall, undefined, [expression, list]);
+};
+
+export const createInlineListFromArrayTransformer = (): ts.TransformerFactory<ts.SourceFile> => context => {
+  return sourceFile => {
+    const visitor = (node: ts.Node): ts.VisitResult<ts.Node> => {
+      // detects [exp](..)
+      if (ts.isCallExpression(node)) {
+        const expression = node.expression;
+        // detects _List_fromArray(..)
+        if (
+          ts.isIdentifier(expression) &&
+          expression.text === LIST_FROM_ARRAY_F_NAME &&
+          node.arguments.length === 1
+        ) {
+          const [arrayLiteral] = node.arguments;
+
+          // detects _List_fromArray([..])
+          if (ts.isArrayLiteralExpression(arrayLiteral)) {
+            return arrayLiteral.elements.reduceRight(appendToFront, listNil);
+          }
+        }
+      }
+
+      return ts.visitEachChild(node, visitor, context);
+    };
+
+    return ts.visitNode(sourceFile, visitor);
+  };
+};
diff --git a/src/experiments/types.ts b/src/experiments/types.ts
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..65f4d5a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/experiments/types.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,4 @@
+export enum Mode {
+  Prod = 'prod',
+  Dev = 'dev',
+}
diff --git a/src/experiments/variantShapes.ts b/src/experiments/variantShapes.ts
index 6071009..ca0030e 100644
--- a/src/experiments/variantShapes.ts
+++ b/src/experiments/variantShapes.ts
@@ -1,8 +1,10 @@
 import ts from 'typescript';
+import { Mode } from './types';
 
 export type VariantReplacement = {
   symbolName: string;
   variantName: string;
+  variantIndex: number;
   maximumNumberOfArgs: number;
   numberOfArgs: number;
 };
@@ -10,17 +12,22 @@ export type VariantReplacement = {
 // TODO fill a proper array
 const argNames = ['a', 'b', 'c', 'd', 'e'];
 
-const createVariantObjectLiteral = ({
-  variantName,
-  maximumNumberOfArgs,
-  numberOfArgs,
-}: {
-  variantName: string;
-  maximumNumberOfArgs: number;
-  numberOfArgs: number;
-}): ts.ObjectLiteralExpression => {
+const createVariantObjectLiteral = (
+  {
+    variantName,
+    maximumNumberOfArgs,
+    numberOfArgs,
+    variantIndex,
+  }: VariantReplacement,
+  mode: Mode
+): ts.ObjectLiteralExpression => {
   return ts.createObjectLiteral([
-    ts.createPropertyAssignment('$', ts.createStringLiteral(variantName)),
+    ts.createPropertyAssignment(
+      '$',
+      mode === Mode.Dev
+        ? ts.createStringLiteral(variantName)
+        : ts.createNumericLiteral(variantIndex.toString())
+    ),
     // existing arguments
     ...argNames
       .slice(0, numberOfArgs)
@@ -32,11 +39,11 @@ const createVariantObjectLiteral = ({
   ]);
 };
 
-const createCtorVariant = ({
-  variantName,
-  maximumNumberOfArgs,
-  numberOfArgs,
-}: VariantReplacement): ts.Expression => {
+const createCtorVariant = (
+  replacement: VariantReplacement,
+  mode: Mode
+): ts.Expression => {
+  const { numberOfArgs } = replacement;
   const funcExpression = ts.createArrowFunction(
     undefined,
     undefined,
@@ -55,11 +62,7 @@ const createCtorVariant = ({
       ),
     undefined,
     undefined,
-    createVariantObjectLiteral({
-      variantName,
-      maximumNumberOfArgs,
-      numberOfArgs,
-    })
+    createVariantObjectLiteral(replacement, mode)
   );
 
   if (numberOfArgs > 1) {
@@ -75,7 +78,8 @@ const createCtorVariant = ({
 };
 
 export const createCustomTypesTransformer = (
-  replacements: VariantReplacement[]
+  replacements: VariantReplacement[],
+  mode: Mode
 ): ts.TransformerFactory<ts.SourceFile> => context => {
   return sourceFile => {
     const visitor = (node: ts.Node): ts.Node => {
@@ -83,16 +87,11 @@ export const createCustomTypesTransformer = (
         for (const replacement of replacements) {
           if (node.name.text === replacement.symbolName) {
             if (replacement.numberOfArgs === 0) {
-              const { variantName, maximumNumberOfArgs } = replacement;
               return ts.updateVariableDeclaration(
                 node,
                 node.name,
                 node.type,
-                createVariantObjectLiteral({
-                  variantName,
-                  maximumNumberOfArgs,
-                  numberOfArgs: 0,
-                })
+                createVariantObjectLiteral(replacement, mode)
               );
             }
 
@@ -100,7 +99,7 @@ export const createCustomTypesTransformer = (
               node,
               node.name,
               node.type,
-              createCtorVariant(replacement)
+              createCtorVariant(replacement, mode)
             );
           }
         }
diff --git a/src/index.ts b/src/index.ts
index c7b8aed..f9bc7e4 100644
--- a/src/index.ts
+++ b/src/index.ts
@@ -8,6 +8,9 @@ import {
   FuncSplit,
   createFuncInlineTransformer,
 } from './experiments/inlineWrappedFunctions';
+import { Mode } from './experiments/types';
+
+import { createInlineListFromArrayTransformer } from './experiments/inlineListFromArray';
 
 const elmOutput = `
 var $elm$core$Maybe$Nothing = {$: 'Nothing'};
@@ -22,6 +25,8 @@ var $author$project$Main$Three = F3(
   });
 
 var _v1 = A3($author$project$Main$Three, a, b, c);
+
+_List_fromArray(['a', 'b', 'c']);
 `;
 
 const source = ts.createSourceFile('elm.js', elmOutput, ts.ScriptTarget.ES2018);
@@ -31,6 +36,7 @@ const replacements: VariantReplacement[] = [
     symbolName: '$elm$core$Maybe$Nothing',
     variantName: 'Nothing',
     maximumNumberOfArgs: 1,
+    variantIndex: 1,
     numberOfArgs: 0,
   },
 
@@ -38,17 +44,22 @@ const replacements: VariantReplacement[] = [
     symbolName: '$elm$core$Maybe$Just',
     variantName: 'Just',
     numberOfArgs: 1,
+    variantIndex: 0,
     maximumNumberOfArgs: 2,
   },
   {
     symbolName: '$author$project$Main$Three',
     variantName: 'Three',
     numberOfArgs: 3,
+    variantIndex: 100500,
     maximumNumberOfArgs: 4,
   },
 ];
 
-const customTypeTransformer = createCustomTypesTransformer(replacements);
+const customTypeTransformer = createCustomTypesTransformer(
+  replacements,
+  Mode.Prod
+);
 const [newFile] = ts.transform(source, [customTypeTransformer]).transformed;
 
 const printer = ts.createPrinter();
@@ -68,10 +79,21 @@ const [sourceWithSplittedFunctions] = ts.transform(newFile, [
 console.log(printer.printFile(sourceWithSplittedFunctions));
 console.log(collectedSplits);
 
-console.log('----------AFTER SPLIT TRANSFORM ----------------');
+console.log('----------AFTER INLINE A(n) TRANSFORM ----------------');
 const funcInlineTransformer = createFuncInlineTransformer(collectedSplits);
 const [sourceWithInlinedFuntioncs] = ts.transform(sourceWithSplittedFunctions, [
   funcInlineTransformer,
 ]).transformed;
 
 console.log(printer.printFile(sourceWithInlinedFuntioncs));
+
+console.log(
+  '----------AFTER INLINE _List_fromArray TRANSFORM ----------------'
+);
+const inlineListFromArrayCalls = createInlineListFromArrayTransformer();
+const [sourceWithInlinedListFromArr] = ts.transform(
+  sourceWithInlinedFuntioncs,
+  [inlineListFromArrayCalls]
+).transformed;
+
+console.log(printer.printFile(sourceWithInlinedListFromArr));