I think Elm is a very opinionated language - which lends itself to love & hate : ) Which is a good thing - languages in which you can do anything and everything are guey slimey things...
On Tue, 24 Oct 2017 at 18:36 Charles Scalfani <[email protected]> wrote: > Back in the day when Java was all the rage, I used to ask 2 interview > questions of developers: > > > 1. What do you love about Java? > 2. What do you hate about Java? > > I never cared what the answer was to #1. It turns out that they simply > listed all of the things that people who promoted Java mentioned, > write-once-run-anywhere, etc. > > It was #2 that I was really interested in. Many developers couldn't think > of a single thing. That told me that they didn't know Java. At the time, I > could've talked for an hour about all the things that were wrong with Java > (and still are). Why? Because I really knew the language. And familiarity > breeds contempt. > > This article feels like the answer to #1 by someone who really doesn't > know the language yet or at least hasn't built anything real or large with > it. > > Don't get me wrong I love Elm but it's not perfect (no language is). > > I'd hope that your articles include the good, bad and the ugly. By doing > so, you will help more people understand if Elm is right for them in a > balanced way. > > > > On Monday, October 23, 2017 at 11:02:11 AM UTC-7, > [email protected] wrote: >> >> >> Hi, >> >> I'm a developer and founder of an agency specialised in digital product >> development. >> >> This summer we've decided to do some experimentation with Elm and we'll >> be summarising the findings in a series of two blogposts. >> >> Here is the first one. Comments are welcome. >> >> https://www.imaginarycloud.com/blog/elm-javascript-reinvented-1-overview/ >> >> Best, >> TF >> >> -- > 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.
