3 ms·
I'm really into functional programming and I gravitate toward Elm and away from PureScript and Haskell. Fundamentally what appeals to me about Elm is the desig
by rtfeldman 9y ago
I'm really into functional programming and I gravitate toward Elm and away from PureScript and Haskell.
Fundamentally what appeals to me about Elm is the design sensibility of "what is the minimal set of primitives necessary to achieve a great user experience?"
Over the years Elm has gotten simpler and nicer at the same time. The last three major releases removed language features.
I love that! Building software is complex enough as it is; one of the things I like most about FP is that I no longer have to spend time thinking about objects, classes, inheritance, etc.
It frees up more of my brain to focus on building things!