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I updated the official guide ( https://guide.elm-lang.org/ ) to try to do a better job at that. It covers "routing" and JS interop much more clearly I think. So I recommend startin…

It "scales well" because of shouldComponentUpdate. That lets you avoid building huge chunks of virtual DOM as your app becomes very large. The trick is that the same exact optimiza…

I think it is worthwhile stopping by the Elm slack channel to ask this. You have framed the question in a weird way. The answer is kind of "these things are not really related in a…

Definitely not ignoring. I talk about the relation between Elm and that sort of stuff in https://youtu.be/Agu6jipKfYw Lots of things look similar in this area that are not. I also …

They key difference is that when you create an event emitter in JS, you now have a resource to manage. Where does that go in your app? In each component? How does the component kno…

That's Standard ML for you ^ I'm excited that Haskell could bring more developers to ML-family languages.

You need a garbage collector either way, so doing one implies you have pretty much succeeded at the other. So it's like two stepping stones that are right next to each other and qu…

I think so! I'd like to get Elm running way faster than JS in browsers (which is possible thanks to some design choices) and that'd involve getting all this together. That opens th…

You can do stuff in JS really easily with [ports]( http://elm-lang.org/learn/Ports.elm ). The TodoMVC example in Elm does this to use localStorage: https://github.com/evancz/elm-to…

I think the core ideas can be used in many settings, that is true. One can use a pattern like this in C if they want. I think there are a couple questions to consider when asking "…

At one point we were trying to name every part of a union type in Elm. Calling things "tags" instead of "constructors" seemed quite nice, but ultimately, it seemed like we couldn't…

We discussed this to death on the mailing list, and this was definitely a consideration! People searching for it online will very likely be searching for "elm union type" where the…

I started looking into Rust again while picking the term "union type" because of their choice to use the term "enum". I ran into the Result type in some code I was reading and it j…

Yeah, this is in for 0.14. I forgot to mention it in the announcement, but Jason deserves a huge thank you for this improvement!

The debugger has been available online for a while ( http://debug.elm-lang.org/ ). It explains how it works and has some more interesting examples than stamps :)

Ah, cool! I think he told me about this work when we chatted at ICFP last year, but wasn't able to find it. So thanks for the link!

Type inference works on all Elm programs, but it's best practice to add type annotations. In the WebGL examples, I felt it made things a bit clearer since folks are probably not fa…

The most novel stuff was about how to handle asynchrony and concurrency without unexpected/unwanted glitches, though I think formulating things in a way that is simple, accessible,…

Whoa, I'm surprised to hear that I "didn't know anything about FRP when I made Elm". A huge part of developing Elm was doing literature review and making new contributions to FRP (…

It's about mutability vs immutability. I think Zach explains the whole idea of immutable arrays really well: http://www.infoq.com/presentations/julia-vectors-maps-sets

Elm normally generates tags that are pretty good. It has come in and out of the compiler for various reasons, so it should be back in again at some point. Sorry for the trouble!

The project is supported by Prezi with the aim of making it production ready ( http://engineering.prezi.com/blog/2013/05/21/elm-at-prezi/ ) and all development effort is focused on…

That was a really fun and inspiring workshop! If you are interested in concurrency in browsers, there were two interesting talks about that ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PBDJYk…