As a relative newcomer to Elm, the impression I have is that Cmd is "special" and really part of the underlying runtime world. Maybe this is a misconception, but the impenetrability of Cmd gives it that sense. At the same time, Task is accessible, well supported, and put forward as the proper way to manage async tasks (certainly as opposed to Cmd).
So my point is that - again, as a bit of a neophyte and not a heavy user of elm - that it seems strange to get Cmd from an API when Task would do. It feels like there's very little I can do with it, as opposed to Task which has pretty great support and lots of features. My two cents. Austin On Wed, Nov 30, 2016 at 3:31 PM Mark Hamburg <[email protected]> wrote: > Yeah. And considering that the high-level web socket API is held up as the > standard of where things are going, it would seem the absence of exposed > chainable tasks is likely only to get worse. > > Another way to look at this as I think about it is: Why Cmd msg as opposed > to Task Never msg as a result type from update functions? Of course, one > can return whatever one wants from one's own update functions, but the > point is really why Cmds as opposed to Tasks as the standard way to > represent work to be done? > > > Mark > > On Tue, Nov 29, 2016 at 11:14 PM Max Goldstein <[email protected]> > wrote: > > Hmm. I want to say it's an issue with the library, but fixing it would > involve changing a fair amount of code and using the low level Websocket > API. > > -- > 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.
