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Elm at Prezi

by enum on 5/29/13, 5:21 PM with 100 comments

• by Ixiaus on 5/29/13, 5:47 PM

  For those interested in compiling down to Javascript with a strongly and statically typed language, there's a brilliant proper subset of Haskell that compiles down to Javascript called "Fay": https://github.com/faylang/fay/wiki

• by revelation on 5/29/13, 6:03 PM

  [..] and every line of JavaScript code costs too much time to maintain.

  At this point, go to the next blackboard. Write after me:

  You can not debug Elm. There is no debugger. You can not debug Elm. There is no debugger.

• by egeozcan on 5/29/13, 6:54 PM

  > The cost of writing JavaScript is just too high

  Every time I see such strongly worded statements, I get amazed by how the authors got to analyze the skills of every developer in the world.

• by fossuser on 5/29/13, 5:47 PM

  Here's a list of languages that compile down to Javascript: https://github.com/jashkenas/coffee-script/wiki/List-of-lang....

  I didn't realize how many there were.

• by zsol on 5/29/13, 5:46 PM

  I recently attended a coding dojo where we wrote code in elm and tests in coffeescript. I was new to both languages but I was surprised how easier elm felt compared to coffeescript (note: I have some haskell background ;]). Here are the results: https://github.com/dzsodzso63/PreziCodingDojo/tree/master/fr...

• by epidemian on 5/29/13, 6:54 PM

  Great news that Evan can dedicate fully to Elm as his main job. I'm very curious about the language and its departure/simplification over traditional DOM manipulation with JS. I hope the best for the project and would love to see some effort for the compiler targeting asm.js :D

• by steveklabnik on 5/29/13, 5:52 PM

  I've really enjoyed playing with FRP, I even wrote a little gem in Ruby for it: https://github.com/steveklabnik/frappuccino/

  And built some simple GUIs using Shoes: https://github.com/steveklabnik/frp_shoes

• by aristidb on 5/29/13, 5:52 PM

  It seems like Haskell users are quite intent on not using Javascript... Elm is written in Haskell. So is Fay. And of course ghcjs.

• by jessedhillon on 5/29/13, 6:52 PM

  I find function application without parentheses enclosing the parameter list to be highly unreadable. Is there something wrong with me?

• by egonschiele on 5/29/13, 6:51 PM

  I am so excited! It's nice to see a functional language like Elm getting financial support from a company.

• by AndreasFrom on 5/29/13, 5:51 PM

  Elm 0.8 was recently announced with a range of improvements for those interested: http://elm-lang.org/blog/announce/version-0.8.elm

• by tingletech on 5/29/13, 7:32 PM

  not to be confused with the elm, the old unix mail client:

  http://www.instinct.org/elm/

• by jlatt on 5/29/13, 6:46 PM

  I was really impressed by elm, but I strongly prefer working with a library that provides some of the features without transpiling. If anyone else is interested, I'm looking for some help with my project: https://github.com/jlatt/frp.js

• by Nekorosu on 5/29/13, 6:51 PM

  Elm is the future and I'm glad to see it now has some good company's support.

• by saosebastiao on 5/29/13, 8:48 PM

  Awesome...you have me intrigued. I would worship the ground you walk on if you targeted asm.js.

• by boothead on 5/30/13, 8:36 AM

  Slightly off topic but does anyone know of ans FRP library for python?

• by nahname on 5/29/13, 5:56 PM

  Inversion of control is a good thing. Why would you want to avoid it?

• by jluan on 5/29/13, 6:51 PM

  Congratulations, Evan!