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Discussion on: How I (Finally) Built an App in Elm

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Ali Spittel

Ah okay! I gave myself probably around 10 hours in total -- I'm not learning it for a job so it makes it harder to justify a huge time commitment! I do have Redux experience, though this was my first fully functional language. I was just proud that I had something working at the end! Maybe someday I will have more time to commit to learning FP more fully!

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Eljay-Adobe

If you do get to the point that you want to make another attempt at an FP language, and you have some interest in .NET, then I highly recommend F# and The Book of F# by Dave Fancher.

F# is essentially OCaml for .NET, created by Don Syme of Microsoft Research Cambridge.

Unlike Elm, it isn't a pure FP language. (To be a first-class .NET language, it has to support .NET's OO paradigm.) But like Elm, it puts FP front-and-center.