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• Reactivity in Programming
  2 projects | dev.to | 15 Apr 2025

  Reactive programming itself is rarely found in pure form. It is often combined with other paradigms. This is how such mixes as Imperative Reactive Programming, Object-Oriented Reactive Programming and Functional Reactive Programming appeared. The latter is the most popular, and the Elm language is considered one of its main representatives.

• Tsonnet #13 - Carets, columns, and clues: adding lexing error tracing
  1 project | dev.to | 28 Mar 2025

  I've drawn inspiration from Elm and the blog post Compiler Errors for Humans -- it is nearly a decade old and still inspiring to read.

• An Ode to TypeScript Enums
  9 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 2 Mar 2025

  When I see this it makes me want to run for ReasonML/ReScript/Elm/PureScript.

  Sum types (without payloads on the instances they are effectively enums) should not require a evening filling ceremonial dance event to define.

  https://reasonml.github.io/

  https://rescript-lang.org/

  https://elm-lang.org/

  https://www.purescript.org/

  (any I forgot?)

  It's nice that TS is a strict super set of JS... But that's about the only reason TS is nice. Apart from that the "being a strict super set" hampers TS is a million and one ways.

  To my JS is too broken to fix with a strict super set.

• Why I'm leaving Elm (2020)
  3 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 16 Feb 2025

  > It appears the last commits on GitHub are from mid 2024

  That's not what I see.

  The last commits for elm/compiler were minor fixes in 2023. Last substantial changes were in 2021. See https://github.com/elm/compiler/commits/master/

  The last commits for elm/core were in the first months of 2021. See https://github.com/elm/core/commits/master/

  > It appears the main developer is working on a new thing?

  One of the problems is that the developer said several times, even in a recent interview, that he was still working on elm, with a focus on the long term. He gave a few vague hints about his private roadmap. After 4 years without any real public activity, I find it hard to believe there's some private activity.

• Top FP technologies
  22 projects | dev.to | 29 Oct 2024

  Elm

• Run elm and lunarvim in a devcontainer
  1 project | dev.to | 27 Oct 2024
• TypeScript's Lack of Naming Types and Type Conversion in Angular
  6 projects | dev.to | 17 Oct 2024

  Elm, ReScript, F#, Ocaml, Scala… it’s just normal to name your types, then use them places. In fact, you’ll often create the types _before_ the code, even if you’re not really practicing DDD (Domain Driven Design). Yes, you’ll do many after the fact when doing functions, or you start testing things and decide to change your design, and make new types. Either way, it’s just “the norm”. You then do the other norms like “name your function” and “name your variables”. I’m a bit confused why it’s only 2 out of 3 (variables and functions, not types) in this TypeScript Angular project. I’ll have to look at other internal Angular projects and see if it’s common there as well.

• How I host Elm web applications with GitHub Pages
  15 projects | dev.to | 17 Oct 2024

  A web application makes use of these same ingredients, i.e. HTML, CSS, and JavaScript, but it uses significantly more JavaScript. As the JavaScript powering your web application grows in size it can bring with it a variety of problems that a few languages, like TypeScript, ReScript, PureScript, and Elm, have attempted to solve. Each of the aforementioned compile to JavaScript languages have their pros and cons but it is beyond the scope of this article to get into those details. Suffice it to say, my preference is Elm. It is also not the goal of this article to convince you to use Elm but only to show you how Elm fits into the flow of creating a web application and hosting it on GitHub Pages. So let's continue by adding Elm to our project.

• Run Elm in a devcontainer on apple silicon
  1 project | dev.to | 13 Oct 2024

  FROM mcr.microsoft.com/devcontainers/javascript-node:20 # Configuring Elm version ARG ELM_VERSION=latest-0.19.1 ARG ELM_TEST_VERSION=latest-0.19.1 ARG ELM_FORMAT_VERSION=latest-0.19.1 # This Dockerfile adds a non-root user with sudo access. Update the “remoteUser” property in # devcontainer.json to use it. More info: https://aka.ms/vscode-remote/containers/non-root-user. ARG USERNAME=node ARG USER_UID=1000 ARG USER_GID=$USER_UID # Install elm using the provided method, elm-test and elm-format via npm RUN export DEBIAN_FRONTEND=noninteractive \ # Install Elm binary && curl -L -o elm.gz https://github.com/elm/compiler/releases/download/0.19.1/binary-for-linux-64-bit.gz \ && gunzip elm.gz \ && chmod +x elm \ && mv elm /usr/local/bin/elm \ # # Install elm-test and elm-format via npm && sudo -u ${USERNAME} npm install --global \ elm-test@${ELM_TEST_VERSION} \ elm-format@${ELM_FORMAT_VERSION} \ # # [Optional] Update UID/GID if needed && if [ "$USER_GID" != "1000" ] || [ "$USER_UID" != "1000" ]; then \ groupmod --gid $USER_GID $USERNAME \ && usermod --uid $USER_UID --gid $USER_GID $USERNAME \ && chown -R $USER_UID:$USER_GID /home/$USERNAME; \ fi \ # Create the elm cache directory where we can mount a volume && mkdir /home/$USERNAME/.elm \ && chown $USERNAME:$USERNAME /home/$USERNAME/.elm # Install elm-test, elm-format, elm-watch, and git globally via npm RUN npm install -g elm-test elm-format elm-watch elm-live git

• How to Build an Elm Land Project for Production
  4 projects | dev.to | 12 Oct 2024

  > [build 8/9] RUN npm install: 8.709 npm error code 1 8.709 npm error path /app/node_modules/elm 8.709 npm error command failed 8.709 npm error command sh -c node install.js 8.709 npm error -- ERROR ----------------------------------------------------------------------- 8.709 npm error 8.709 npm error I am detecting that your computer (linux_arm64) may not be compatible with any 8.709 npm error of the official pre-built binaries. 8.709 npm error 8.709 npm error I recommend against using the npm installer for your situation. Check out the 8.709 npm error alternative installers at https://github.com/elm/compiler/releases/tag/0.19.1 8.709 npm error to see if there is something that will work better for you. 8.709 npm error 8.709 npm error From there I recommend asking for guidance on Slack or Discourse to find someone 8.709 npm error who can help with your specific situation. 8.709 npm error 8.709 npm error --------------------------------------------------------------------------------

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