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Just tried Elm yesterday (not using this editor, though). Neat and simple. But I found the documentation to be of a really low quality, and I believe good docs
by drdaeman 10y ago
Just tried Elm yesterday (not using this editor, though). Neat and simple.
But I found the documentation to be of a really low quality, and I believe good docs are the most important thing for any language aiming for developers' adoption.
At least the docs on elm-lang.org weren't any good - maybe there's some alternative projects out there?
let rant_ = [
I just wanted to have a thin non-breakable space (U+202F) and haven't found anything about actual syntax in the "syntax" document, nor anywhere around that. Syntax docs is just a bunch of examples with a short notes - a quick cheatsheet at best.
Then I wanted to browse Html package contents and see what's the difference between beginnerProgram and program and what else do they have in stock (with Haskell I always had good idea of module's contents by reading docs on Hackage), but the docstrings were nearly meaningless, not even listing the arguments. "Read about The Elm Architecture", really? I just came from that document (and they only cover beginnerProgram basics), hoping a module docs would give me better idea.
] in sorryAbout rant_ -- I had eventually figured it all out, but was quite disappointed.