If you are interested in contributing to Elm development, I would recommend checking out the projects page <https://github.com/elm-lang/projects>, as well as subscribing to elm-dev
On Sat, Jul 16, 2016 at 12:12 AM, John Bugner <[email protected]> wrote: > 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]> 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. > -- 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.
