One big focus right now is adding support for the rest of the Web Platform to the standard library.
If you haven't yet, you can subscribe to the elm-dev mailing list to keep abreast of what Evan is up to at the moment. On Fri, Jul 15, 2016 at 8:16 PM, John Bugner <[email protected]> wrote: > I don't mean to sound pushy, but if "That's what people are familiar > with." is taken as a valid reason, then why not bring back 'atoi' and such > names then? Why not make the syntax more JS-like? Why not just make Elm yet > another imperative OO language? > > This is an opportunity for Elm to show that it takes seriously the task of > making programming easier. The fact that the world of programming has for > so long made itself arbitrarily difficult by having incomprehensible > function names (among many other sins) is something that programmers should > be ashamed of, not proud of. > > > On Wednesday, July 13, 2016 at 11:34:45 PM UTC-5, Max Goldstein wrote: >> >> It's great that Elm can appeal to new programmers, but it's mainly >> targeting web developers. As such, things like max/min, ||/&&, and "string" >> are going to stick around. No need to reinvent what's been standard(-ish) >> since C. >> >> The biggest name annoyance, IMHO, is *filter*. It doesn't immediately >> convey whether you're selecting in or out. For my money, Ruby got this one >> right: *select* and *reject*. They sound similar and they are similar, >> and the names convey which way the predicate goes. I wouldn't be adverse to >> stealing a few other Ruby or near-Ruby names; perhaps List.includes instead >> of member, and reduce to replace foldl (dropping foldr and renaming it fold >> could also work). >> >> That said, I'm not convinced much of this will happen. Evan is a "big >> picture" guy, and this would break a lot of code, although deprecation >> (having both copies for awhile) could help. >> > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Elm Discuss" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Elm Discuss" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
