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Elm 1+2: can't download X

by darfs on 10/20/16, 4:42 PM with 24 comments

• by marksamman on 10/20/16, 5:48 PM

  "This is true for the very first expression. That's because it is downloading packages and building everything. After that, it has all that information, so it's faster." - https://github.com/elm-lang/elm-repl/issues/128#issuecomment...

• by rudolf0 on 10/20/16, 5:07 PM

  I wonder how a programmer from the 80s would react if they were given a time machine and this was their first experience with modern programming.

• by ggregoire on 10/20/16, 5:30 PM

  For those wondering what's Elm:

  https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12718224 (4 days ago) - Elm in Production for France TV

  http://elm-lang.org - "A delightful language for reliable webapps. Generate JavaScript with great performance and no runtime exceptions."

• by davesque on 10/20/16, 6:54 PM

  Is this bad since it can't execute a simple command without a library? Or is it good since the error message was so descriptive?

  If the consensus is "bad": I imagine at some point elm made the decision to make things highly modular (something which people usually like) and lazy (another thing people generally like), so why are those things a problem in this case?

  Update: Mostly what I'm observing here is that the tweet basically implies that the author(s) of elm should be ashamed of themselves for designing (free) software that is so obviously wrong. Publicly shaming projects like this is dumb. I'm not convinced it's ever accomplished anything other than kicking off big flame wars. He should open or contribute to an issue ticket for the elm project. Otherwise, he should just stop using the software if he doesn't like it.

• by sotojuan on 10/20/16, 5:36 PM

  Fitting. Elm's website and docs won't load without JS as well.

• by daddykotex on 10/20/16, 5:07 PM

  Can anyone explain what might need a HTTP request here?