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I thought Elm was known for having vast quantities of boilerplate? I wouldn't put much stock into number of lines of code.

• roadbeats 8y ago
  I never had that impression when I was building projects with Elm, in fact, it felt like I was focusing on the app itself instead of the language and boilerplate. I compared it with JS mess though.
  • vanderZwan 8y ago
    It's quite "vertical" though (which is fine, it just makes LOC comparisons a bit less useful)
    • pure-awesome 8y ago
      That was my thought as well. From what I've seen, canonical Elm uses lines which are quite short. It's a lot of lines, but how many characters is it?
• steinuil 8y ago
  Encoding and decoding of JSON usually adds huge amounts of boilerplate (in some small-to-medium-sized apps it might account for more than half of the LoC), and separating an app into modules requires you to add some boilerplate in your update functions.