Elm at Prezi

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": <a href="https://github.com/faylang/fay/wiki" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/faylang/fay/wiki</a>

<i>[..] and every line of JavaScript code costs too much time to maintain.</i><p>At this point, go to the next blackboard. Write after me:<p>You can not debug Elm. There is no debugger. You can not debug Elm. There is no debugger.

&#62; The cost of writing JavaScript is just too high<p>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.

Here's a list of languages that compile down to Javascript: <a href="https://github.com/jashkenas/coffee-script/wiki/List-of-languages-that-compile-to-JS" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/jashkenas/coffee-script/wiki/List-of-lang...</a>.<p>I didn't realize how many there were.

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: <a href="https://github.com/dzsodzso63/PreziCodingDojo/tree/master/frpDojo" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/dzsodzso63/PreziCodingDojo/tree/master/fr...</a>

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

I've really enjoyed playing with FRP, I even wrote a little gem in Ruby for it: <a href="https://github.com/steveklabnik/frappuccino/" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/steveklabnik/frappuccino/</a><p>And built some simple GUIs using Shoes: <a href="https://github.com/steveklabnik/frp_shoes" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/steveklabnik/frp_shoes</a>

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

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

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

Elm 0.8 was recently announced with a range of improvements for those interested: <a href="http://elm-lang.org/blog/announce/version-0.8.elm" rel="nofollow">http://elm-lang.org/blog/announce/version-0.8.elm</a>

not to be confused with the elm, the old unix mail client:<p><a href="http://www.instinct.org/elm/" rel="nofollow">http://www.instinct.org/elm/</a>

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: <a href="https://github.com/jlatt/frp.js" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/jlatt/frp.js</a>

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

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

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

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

Congratulations, Evan!