What is the "web platform"? Is there a way I can contribute to this project?
On Friday, July 15, 2016 at 10:41:05 PM UTC-5, Nick H wrote: > > 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] > <javascript:>> 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] <javascript:>. >> 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.
