I was experimenting with #elm #elmlang during the weekend, and I kind of fell in love. Is it normal? 😵‍💫

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La Pieta (Ossip Zadkine, 1955-57). Painted #elm #wood #sculpture. In the golden limestone #Romanesque crypt of Saint-Laurens, Les Arques, #Lot #France. #Virtues #Religion #Art

#Elm is perhaps the most sophisticated #DSL ever created.

That may well sound like an oxymoronic statement by an oxygenated moron. But it is true. It behooves all #CS undergraduates to study this little pure #FP jewel. https://elm-lang.org

Yes, Elm is a web front-end DSL. But it is not a requirement to place that yoke upon one's shoulders. REPL, \(\texttt{elm-test}\), and other command-line tools enable local, off-the-web work.

Besides, these youngsters will have to grapple with web development the moment they enter #IT. So, they might as well get started on it—the proper way in Elm—while still in the nurturing environment of school.

@fosskers I would adapt my code a bit because of some good ideas from @barubary code examples.
but actually otherwise find in for/next loop actually quite good. What I don't like so much when connecting different map/grep calls to each other is that you have to read the algorithm from the end. I wish there was something like #haskell's ==> or #elm/#elixir |> or #clojure's ->/->> chaining (operator) functions in #perl.

I griped in the README of my #Elm #PFD (purely functional data structures) project that the language does not have inner functions. Today, Eniac314 on #GitHub pointed out my mistake. I've updated the README and converted the auxiliary functions in my code to inner functions.

My apologies to Elm. And thank you, Eniac314.

https://github.com/amenzwa/pfd

Technischer Stammtisch in #Schöppenstedt vom VDE am 13.09. ab 18:00 Uhr. Das erste mal in Schöppenstedt.

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It's happening! https://github.com/gren-lang/node/pull/8

I've been wanting this for a long time. An HTTP server API for @gren_lang, a nice, simple, purely functional language in the style of #elm and #haskell that compiles to #javascript for the browser and node.

Very basic for now, but hoping to build on this as I start using it for some full stack gren projects.

I’m trying out Zed #CodeEditor lately as a replacement for #SublimeText and I think it’s great! Native and fast, with some smart workflow decisions (like editable multibuffer or temporarily expandable panels) and with Copilot/ChatGPT built in. I feel at ease and highly productive when I use it.

It doesn't yet support some of the languages I use at work (#Elm and #Fsharp), but #TypeScript and #Rust support is great.

And the docs are well written, check them out!

https://zed.dev

I just published "PDF: purely functional data structures in #Elm" on GitHub.

These are Elm reimplementations of the data structures presented in the book "#Purely #Functional #DataStructures" (1999) by Prof. Okasaki. It is the only one of its kid that I am aware. It is a tour de force of functional thinking. The book includes #StandardML and #Haskell implementations.

Okasaki is a descendant of the ML tradition. His PhD advisor at CMU during the mid 1990s was Prof. Harper who wrote "Programming in Standard ML" (2011), contributed to the definition of the language, and was a member of the ML posse, alongside Milner, Tofte, Reppy, MacQueen, et al.

I chose #Elm for the following reasons:

• Elm is a purely functional language
• Elm does not yet have a comprehensive library of data structures
• Elm evolves at a deliberate pace, with subsuming to the modern CI/CD pipeline pressure
• Elm is one of the simplest #FP languages
• Elm is sane
• These properties make Elm a good candidate for use in #CS education, for teaching FP, for teaching data structures, and for teaching disciplined web programming, and a comprehensive collection of data structures could be of use in undergraduate education

An unstated, but no less important, reason for my choosing Elm is Python fatigue. I currently use Python at work, and I am also expanding my "CLRS algorithms in Jupyter notebooks" project. I like Python, but many hours of Python a day is deleterious to my #MentalHealth. Elm is both the prophylactic and the cure.

Please note that both PDF and CLRS are my solo projects, and they are works in progress that grow incrementally. Both projects aim to help #CS undergraduate students.

https://github.com/amenzwa/pfd

#TypeCheckers in #FP languages treat programmers with a laconic disdain. The type checker in #Elm, however, encourages programmers to do better, and provides clear, cogent, constructive critiques. This makes Elm a good candidate in which to study FP, perhaps even as the first #programming language.

Most of all, I view Elm as a pragmatic language in which to teach #CS students disciplined web development, after they have learned FP in Haskell, OCaml, or Standard ML.

**Check out my new #Elm game! The Wizard Frogy** 🐸🪄⭐

- Play it here → https://the-wizard-frogy.netlify.app
- Report bugs or contribute → https://github.com/FabianVegaA/The-Wizard-Frogy

A fun and challenging game where you control a wizard frog to eat stars.

**Who can get the highest score?**

I hope you enjoy it!

When it comes to local first web applications, is #htmx better, worse, or the same as things like #solidjs, #leptos and #elm?

I want to create a front end that would work local-first with a rust core/backend.

Still exploring these. Not sure what exactly is happening here but it feels like progress. Whatever that is when the goal is a bit fuzzy. #ElmLang #elm #WebGL #gamedev #CreativeCoding

@kafran @alexito4 I also like the additional doze of bird watching photos. Similar thing with following #elm and getting occasional photos of trees in my feed. 🌲🐦

Near my house there is an #elm #tree. Someone, presumably a tree surgeon, has taken a very neat ring of bark off at about waist height. Does anyone know why you might do that?

I wrote my second #elm app and I'm just in awe how nice it is. Just a small, self contained single page app and still a total noob but the fact that I built this and after some struggle with the compiler it... just works. This is what building software should be.

New blog post!

How Writing Code in #Elm Changed How I Want to Write Code in #Python

https://dneaves-blog.lamdera.app/1

Trying to decide between Svelte or Elm for my next "toy app" but don't have time to learn both before summer holidays. #svelte #elm #programming