Personally, I am overjoyed that Elm is taking steps to make it's aesthetics more approachable to the non-Haskell crowd. Haskell is wonderful, but it has a lear

Personally, I am overjoyed that Elm is taking steps to make it's aesthetics more approachable to the non-Haskell crowd. Haskell is wonderful, but it has a learning curve that is steep enough to ward off the vast majority of programmers. A big part of the curve is that Haskell has a vocabulary that presumes a familiarity with decades of research that frankly only a very small population is familiar with. In that context, I'm sure "lift" made sense for the Elm thesis. But, without that context, "map" makes a lot more sense to me and to a lot more people. I'm hopeful that Elm will help bring Haskell's ideas to a wider audience. After those ideas become familiar, I fully expect a large crowd of them to find Haskell's highly efficient syntax for expressing them to be very enticing. But, getting people to that point is going to require a lot of considerations to ease the JavaScripter -> Elmer -> Haskeller transformation.