FS2 VS Elm

Recently, CE3 has had similar issues reported across multiple repositories, almost an epidemic of reports!

Thanks for the explanation!

So it's pull based and not push based like most other streams lib.

Does maybe someone know how this compares to FS2 or Iteratees than? (Both are also pull based streaming solutions).

https://fs2.io/#/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iteratee

Looks quite similar to me. Is the Scala FS2 lib maybe even a clones of the Haskell solution? Or are they different in important aspects?

Most important/known: * https://http4s.org/ - an HTTP client/server * https://github.com/typelevel/fs2 - streaming * https://github.com/tpolecat/doobie - JDBC

On the contrary, switching to the functional mindset, with something like Typelevel Scala3 and respective cats and cats-effect fs2 frameworks, helps to rethink a lot of designs and development approaches.

fs2 for streaming.

Finally, the last chapter has been rewritten to be based on some of the main design ideas from FS2 (https://fs2.io), which I hope will be more approachable than the 1st edition.

Just to clarify, is your doubt about the meaning of the api, or do you think you have found a bug? In either case, you can also open a Github discussion https://github.com/typelevel/fs2/discussions.

Another more reactive solution would to use signals, as in FPR sinal network. fs2 implements this very nicely here https://github.com/typelevel/fs2/blob/8b285a6b54c63d43ed6aa3bb91365652035c90e5/core/shared/src/main/scala/fs2/concurrent/Signal.scala

Assuming the bug mentioned here is https://github.com/typelevel/fs2/issues/2568, we came up with a partial fix in a day (https://github.com/typelevel/fs2/pull/2569) and a complete fix in 2 days: https://github.com/typelevel/fs2/pull/2572. Note the original bug was opened on a Saturday. :)

Elm [1] is based on a similar idea. Build your app from pure functions that return HTML tags.

[1] https://elm-lang.org/

You also wouldn't really be creating your own new programing language. You would be creating something that can run JavaScript by following JavaScript standards and syntax. You might be able to add some non-standard features of your own on top of those standards, or include your own standard library of helpers or utilities, but you can't completely make a new or alternative language and then load it in the browser (or at least not by reimplementing ECMAScript standards... you actually can make your own language that runs within any Javascript enviroment, if you provide an interpreter or compiler that transforms it into valid JS. Some people have done something like this, eg Elm: https://elm-lang.org/).

You should at least have a look at https://elm-lang.org/ it is a pure functional language like Haskell (although with fewer fancy syntax/type classes) but it has some lovely libraries for visualisation and even with plain elm (+ elm-ui) doing string transformations can be easily done.

I get it. However, the whole point of using Unions to narrow your types, ensure only a set of possible scenarios can occur, and only access data of a particular union when it’s safe to do so. That’s some of what pattern matching can provide, and 100% of what using switch statements in TypeScript with their Discriminated Unions can provide. Yes, it’s not 100% exhaustive, but TypeScript is not soundly typed, and even Elm which is still has the same issue TypeScript does: You’re running in JavaScript where anything is possible. So it’s good enough to build with and much better than what you had.

The beauty of a language like Elm (and other lambda-calculus / functional programming inspired languages) is that there's very little transformation involved in going from an idea to code. And that seems to have a big impact on getting things done.

I think the most fun and approachable way for beginners to build games with functional programming is with Elm [1].

See a few (small, demo) games built by the community in [2] .

Notice Elm has abandoned the FRP approach in favor of Model-View-Update [3].

[1] https://elm-lang.org/