Habitica VS Elm

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Habitica, an innovative daily planning app, takes a unique approach to task management by transforming your daily routine into an exciting role-playing game (RPG). Combining the principles of gamification and productivity, Habitica offers a refreshing and engaging way to stay organized, motivated, and on track with your goals. With its intuitive interface and vibrant visuals, this app turns mundane tasks and habits into thrilling quests and challenges.

habitica: this app turns your life into a role-playing game, with your tasks and habits to complete/achieve.

Works with Habitica (https://habitica.com/), an app that turns habits into RPG games! When reviewing with Anki, you can earn experience and items. (Habitica is also free)

> From these experiences, I’ve realized that avoiding bad habits is just as important as cultivating good habits.

Avoidance rarely works i think. I'd say replacing negative habits with positive ones is a better long term strategy.

Can recommend the App Habitica for this, free and open source. There are Android and iOS clients for it. Makes habits dailies and todos more fun.

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https://habitica.com

For everyone who does not know Habitica: it's a gamified task list where you can get coins for tasks and buy virtual pets (or your own custom rewards) for them. It's available on pretty much every platform. Guilds are groups for like-minded people, a little like subreddits. They're useful for holding each other accountable or just chatting about features and stuff. If you're new to Habitica and want to join, feel free as well!

Something like Ring Fit Adventure is probably out since you don't have much money to throw around, but you could try a "life RPG" type app like Habatica, rewarding yourself for keeping up on the habits you want to encourage. And it's free! Not sure if maybe there are general workout apps that make it feel like a game.

Habitica is pretty good. If you're into pixel arts and gamification. It has good community behind it to.

hmm get an instant pot, cook alot, and jump rope. It burns alot of calories per minute, and use habitica.com. It's an app that makes your life into an rpg. you can even join a guild with guys who want to get fit!

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/