A small dive into, and rejection of, Elm. I am always dissatisfied with the state of front end development. I did a fairly deep dive into ClojureScript and found it nice initially…

UPDATE: adding a sentence for clarity after feedback from someone: I don’t think the issue is kernel code. I think the issue is that the Web platform support is small currently, and there’s a large barrier for community contribution to it, and this causes... (more…)

Elm is famous for having “no runtime exceptions” and for the most part, it does a really, really good job! It is possible to write Elm without runtime exceptions, and the majority of users may never… (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…)

The unidirectional Elm architecture has seen a lot of usage since the rise of React + Redux. Its origins are in Elm, which is a purely functional, Haskell-like language. So why is this much used… (more…)