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Elm blows me away. It's everything I saw that React was trying to do, but bound up in an actual language that has strong Haskell-ish types, is fully functional
by crusso 10y ago
Elm blows me away. It's everything I saw that React was trying to do, but bound up in an actual language that has strong Haskell-ish types, is fully functional, and mind-bendingly fun to learn.
Elm really could be the future of bullet-proof web development. It has everything it needs except for runaway popularity.
- roguecoder 10y ago"Mind-bending" being presented as a feature could possibly explain the lack of popularity.
- crusso 10y agoMind-bending in a good way, like the way that Haskell lets you express constructs that you may never really have used in other languages.
- kuon 10y agoI dismissed elm about 10 times. But once I tried it, it was great. The pure functional approach of elm is like solving an equation. Once it is solved, it's done, you can go home. In the sense of that you write elm code only once, if it work, it will always work. And if it doesn't work, it won't compile anyway.