So much this - I think I've tried to dig into Elm three or four times now, over the course of several years. I love the ideas behind it, and the guarantees it provides. I thought after getting heavily into functional-style JavaScript programming the transition would be easier but it was always difficult.
I want to like it, but I'd take TypeScript's semi type-safety over Elm any time.
This is how I feel. I understand the performance boosts in the final products but the process of building and typing out all of the [ ][ ] in code just cripples me. I really love the idea of functional programming, it just seems to run circles around OOP, but the syntax is absolutely awful and as a person who specializes in CSS this is the greatest downfall. My experience with CSS in elm has not been good. I wish there was a lot more info and tutorials about it. If it had the same type of hype and following as Vue (which just feels good) I think more would be done with it.
I do have to say though that a truly remarkable project is Dscova.com I really wish these guys would put more information out in actual code so we could learn how to build things as good as this.
Js functional style really doesn't feel the same for a variety of reasons...I think no matter how good you get at it. Elm/purescript a lot closer to Haskell. So if you are trying to learn that style, go for it. That being said, elm has so many breaking changes even today, that using in production beware.
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So much this - I think I've tried to dig into Elm three or four times now, over the course of several years. I love the ideas behind it, and the guarantees it provides. I thought after getting heavily into functional-style JavaScript programming the transition would be easier but it was always difficult.
I want to like it, but I'd take TypeScript's semi type-safety over Elm any time.
This is how I feel. I understand the performance boosts in the final products but the process of building and typing out all of the [ ][ ] in code just cripples me. I really love the idea of functional programming, it just seems to run circles around OOP, but the syntax is absolutely awful and as a person who specializes in CSS this is the greatest downfall. My experience with CSS in elm has not been good. I wish there was a lot more info and tutorials about it. If it had the same type of hype and following as Vue (which just feels good) I think more would be done with it.
I do have to say though that a truly remarkable project is Dscova.com I really wish these guys would put more information out in actual code so we could learn how to build things as good as this.
Js functional style really doesn't feel the same for a variety of reasons...I think no matter how good you get at it. Elm/purescript a lot closer to Haskell. So if you are trying to learn that style, go for it. That being said, elm has so many breaking changes even today, that using in production beware.