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Elm is awesome! I would really like an equivalent for software/game dev

by Narice 5y ago

axelroze 5y ago
The Elm Architecture is not that super novel. Actually it came from game development from the Components way of thinking. Take a look at this book. It's a classic for gamedev: - https://gameprogrammingpatterns.com/ https://gameprogrammingpatterns.com/
tempest_ 5y ago
The language itself seems interesting but from the outside looking in it appears a bit stagnant. Is the community active at all in 2021 or is it just the result of having basically one person working on the language?
- sdeframond 5y ago
  I would say it is quite active, although still small. I think there is a slow shift toward community built tools such as lambdera. The language itself is pretty stable (and good, IMHO). Most of the news are available on the discourse discourse.elm-lang.org
- G4BB3R 5y ago
  Elm seems stagnant because Evan is not so transparent and prefer work in a private branch and to release work in batches instead of having a release every 6 months, this makes people think it is dead. Elm is still being used in production by dozens of companies with huge codebases (100k~400kloc), and the community is very active, there are amazing projects like elm-pages, elm-review, elm-ui (from mdgriffith), elm-spa, elm-charts, lamdera and others.
- 1-more 5y ago
  check out the elm slack! Very active, but that's behind a signup wall so that's ahrd to see from the outside. https://elmlang.herokuapp.com https://elmlang.herokuapp.com
- z3ugma 5y ago
  Most of the activity happens in the (public) Elm Slack community, so it's not indexed in search engines and hard to find in StackOverflow, but it's a really effective place to get advice and help with a problem in a more personal way
S04dKHzrKT 5y ago
The Nu game engine might interest you. There's also FuncUI for app dev which is F# + MVU running on Avalonia. https://github.com/bryanedds/Nu https://github.com/bryanedds/Nu https://github.com/fsprojects/Avalonia.FuncUI https://github.com/fsprojects/Avalonia.FuncUI

Elm is awesome! I would really like an equivalent for software/game dev

by Narice 5y ago

Elm is awesome! I would really like an equivalent for software/game dev

The Elm Architecture is not that super novel. Actually it came from game development from the Components way of thinking. Take a look at this book. It's a classic for gamedev: - https://gameprogrammingpatterns.com/ https://gameprogrammingpatterns.com/

tempest_ 5y ago

The language itself seems interesting but from the outside looking in it appears a bit stagnant. Is the community active at all in 2021 or is it just the result of having basically one person working on the language?

sdeframond 5y ago
I would say it is quite active, although still small. I think there is a slow shift toward community built tools such as lambdera. The language itself is pretty stable (and good, IMHO). Most of the news are available on the discourse discourse.elm-lang.org
G4BB3R 5y ago
Elm seems stagnant because Evan is not so transparent and prefer work in a private branch and to release work in batches instead of having a release every 6 months, this makes people think it is dead. Elm is still being used in production by dozens of companies with huge codebases (100k~400kloc), and the community is very active, there are amazing projects like elm-pages, elm-review, elm-ui (from mdgriffith), elm-spa, elm-charts, lamdera and others.
1-more 5y ago
check out the elm slack! Very active, but that's behind a signup wall so that's ahrd to see from the outside. https://elmlang.herokuapp.com https://elmlang.herokuapp.com
z3ugma 5y ago
Most of the activity happens in the (public) Elm Slack community, so it's not indexed in search engines and hard to find in StackOverflow, but it's a really effective place to get advice and help with a problem in a more personal way

S04dKHzrKT 5y ago

The Nu game engine might interest you. There's also FuncUI for app dev which is F# + MVU running on Avalonia. https://github.com/bryanedds/Nu https://github.com/bryanedds/Nu https://github.com/fsprojects/Avalonia.FuncUI https://github.com/fsprojects/Avalonia.FuncUI