Small Assets without the Headache in Elm 0.19

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Post by liquid_x » Tue, Aug 21, 2018, 12:29 PM UTC

Small Assets without the Headache in Elm 0.19
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Re: Small Assets without the Headache in Elm 0.19

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Post by thedanabrams » Tue, Aug 21, 2018, 1:01 PM UTC

It’s been a long time coming but this is great. Thanks to everyone on the Core Team, and especially Evan, for their hard work.

Can’t wait for what comes next, especially, hopefully, some interesting things in Elm-Explorations.

Re: Small Assets without the Headache in Elm 0.19

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Post by antew » Tue, Aug 21, 2018, 1:16 PM UTC

I'm so glad to see this, congrats to Evan and everyone who helped get 0.19 out the door!

I've been working in Elm for about a year now and it is a joy to work with, moving from vanilla JS/Angular/React to Elm has been a boon to productivity and I actually have confidence that when I refactor something and have fixed any compiler errors that it is going to work.

Re: Small Assets without the Headache in Elm 0.19

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Post by dsiegel2275 » Tue, Aug 21, 2018, 1:16 PM UTC

Congratulations! I don't use Elm in production (yet), but have been following it's evolution for the past few years, built a few small side projects with it, and have gotten the chance to attend both Elm conferences. What a great community and great piece of technology.

Re: Small Assets without the Headache in Elm 0.19

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Post by ronkwan » Tue, Aug 21, 2018, 1:19 PM UTC

is it just me? i thought this old school email client is getting an update after a decade?

Re: Small Assets without the Headache in Elm 0.19

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Post by revskill » Tue, Aug 21, 2018, 1:24 PM UTC

How about server-side rendering ?

Re: Small Assets without the Headache in Elm 0.19

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Post by subbz » Tue, Aug 21, 2018, 1:25 PM UTC

Seeing that and liking Elm I have to tell that GatsbyJS (https://www.gatsbyjs.org/) outputs really fast end-products. Is that possible with Elm too?

Re: Small Assets without the Headache in Elm 0.19

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Post by doctor_stopsign » Tue, Aug 21, 2018, 1:26 PM UTC

Congrats on the release! I have very high hopes for Elm in the future, and I think it truly shifts the paradigm of frontend development.

On an attempt to use Elm in production I ended up switching back to Javascript. The biggest issue I faced was lack of type-classes, which made certain parts of the code feel like I was pulling teeth to get Elm's type system to be happy. Perhaps this is more of an issue of expecting Elm to be more like Haskell than it is.

I hope Elm is able to get more adoption, and with it more examples of idiomatic approaches to problems in Elm's style. However this somewhat feels like a chicken-and-egg problem.

Regardless, this release looks great for people using it in production already!

Re: Small Assets without the Headache in Elm 0.19

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Post by patsall » Tue, Aug 21, 2018, 1:27 PM UTC

The real Elm has been at version 2.5.8 for many years. Why didn't these guys pick a name not already used by a famous piece of software?

Re: Small Assets without the Headache in Elm 0.19

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Post by salimmadjd » Tue, Aug 21, 2018, 1:33 PM UTC

I love Elm and I recommend it to everyone who wants to get into functional programming, especially Haskell.

Additionally I'm glad .19 finally came out. But 18 months was really long.

I'm guessing this was a good release point to show some major benefits, and I'm assuming that past 18 months was spent on more stuff that will come out later which is not ready yet.

The main change seems to be a smaller codebase. Which is great. This is done by dead code elimination and not including unused modules in addition of some incremental size reduction by record field renaming (replacing someReallyLong.name with s.n) . However some of the other concepts that supposedly was going to improve SPAs etc. are not released yet.