Elm 0.12.3 – Hardware accelerated 3D rendering with WebGL

This release makes me very happy. I never really took a look at Elm but yesterday I've receive a bug report on a very old library of mine to parse GLSL. The author of Elm told me it was used in their WebGL work and pointed to that Thwomp example. I didn't know that library was actually used by anyone!

The Elm hackers continue to impress me. FRP, the interactive timeline debugger, and now functional 3D graphics. Functional game programming is a big interest of mine, and I've taken a lot of inspiration from Elm in my own personal project to create a 2D game engine for Guile Scheme.

I still think first of a terminal mail program when I read "elm". Same for "pine".

Loading this page insta-kills my Browser.<p>FF 29.0.1 on 3.10.39-1-MANJARO x86_64 with lots of plugins (HTTPSEverywhere, Ghostery, FlashBlock...)<p>It does not recognize the crash and does not offer a crash report on restart.

I&#x27;m curious, why isn&#x27;t type inference used in the examples? For example:<p><a href="http://elm-lang.org/edit/examples/WebGL/Triangle.elm" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;elm-lang.org&#x2F;edit&#x2F;examples&#x2F;WebGL&#x2F;Triangle.elm</a><p>Edit: ok, the language has full type inference, but not the webgl examples.

&gt;We switched away from Hue-Saturation-Value (HSV) because Value is a bit more confusing than Lightness.<p>That&#x27;s funny to me because I&#x27;ve always found HSV colors and color choosers to be a lot more intuitive.

Does it only support Triangles? What about buffers? Rendering individual triangles is not efficient if you have anything more than a simple scene.

elm was my daily-use email client at work twelve years ago. <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elm_(email_client)" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Elm_(email_client)</a>