And that was exactly that kind of friend who no matter what he says always sounds convincing. Probably because of his white beard and blue eyes. Or may be because he is actually almost always right… (more…)

I'm a sucker for math (not necessarily good at it, I just like it) and really dislike null pointer exceptions. If you can relate, then functional programming is probably something you will like too. Now I've (almost) replicated minesweeper in Elm, and I t... (more…)

One of the highlights of the 2016 Strange Loop conference in St Louis was the Tom Hall talk Unlimited Register Machines, Gödelization and…

This is the backbone of a web application written in the Elm language (https://elm-lang.org/). This loop happens every time something happen. The “something” is converted to a message (Msg) and sent… (more…)

If you want to make anyone on the core Elm team roll their eyes, just pick a feature that Haskell has and say, "Elm should have it too." 'Typeclasses' is the most common way to play the game, but you'll get extra hipster points if you say 'Higher-Kinded ...