Agreed on both points, love it and a bit too wicked for new-comers. Elm is perfect there and should find its place into all kinds of educational contexts hopefu

Agreed on both points, love it and a bit too wicked for new-comers. Elm is perfect there and should find its place into all kinds of educational contexts hopefully. Such a friendly ML language, I secretly call it "the Basic of FP/ML land" (an honour in my book; more modern equivalent might be Python there but you get the idea). Also good that it's missing "advanced" stuff like type-classes, built-in monad/functor/applicative & friends. Good for teaching because students will be compelled to learn to write that themselves from the ground up. It's all lambda calculus under the hood anyway, and thusly representable "hand-made from scratch".