The world of front end development has been experiencing a major paradigm shift over the past few years. Frameworks have shifted from Model/View and Object-Oriented paradigm of Backbone, Ember, Angularjs v1, and dozens of similar smaller projects to a new... (more…)

While trying to learn Elm, I came across a few concepts that were not easy to grasp. Especially when it comes to types and the syntax. I struggled with the difference between type and type alias. I struggled with understanding what was going on in a type ... (more…)

elmx - A tiny precompiler that takes an Elm program with embedded HTML and desugars the HTML into elm-html syntax. Elmx is to Elm what React's JSX is to Javascript...

If you like what you see now, that’s pretty much what Elm is going to be for a while. I’m currently doing some exploratory work. It is still too early to tell which parts of that might work out, so there is no real news to share at this point. If this w... (more…)

Or more specifically, I gave a presentation about the program that the tweet referenced, as it compared to a program written in a different language that implemented the same “specification.” Along… (more…)