I'm just finishing up a first-year course at McMaster University where we learned basic CS concepts (divide and conquer, state machines, recursion, algebraic da

I'm just finishing up a first-year course at McMaster University where we learned basic CS concepts (divide and conquer, state machines, recursion, algebraic data types, FRP, etc) using ELM. It's the first time I've ever put an honest effort into learning a pure functional language, and although it was initially frustrating to a self-taught programmer with a background in several procedural languages and SQL, it's growing on me, and I'm probably going to look for a side project (maybe a small game or a simple CPU simulator) to build with ELM when the course is over. I only wish the "Improved error messages" and "Catching more bugs" features had been introduced about three months ago, probably would have saved me hours!