[elm-discuss] In 0.17, what's the analog of Mouse.click for touch devices (ie. iPhone)

2016-06-13 Thread William Bailey
I've re-written the GUI for my bridge playing app (www.deepfinesse.com) in Elm and love it! I've developed it using evanc/elm-graphics (so Collage and Element) as opposed to HTML / SVG. Back in 0.16, I thought I saw a "touch" or maybe "tap" module which I assumed I'd be using for running the

[elm-discuss] Re: Type Checking in non-Pure Languages

2016-06-13 Thread Alexandre Galays
Typescript is very, very far from pure (as are almost all languages, really) but the improvement from Javascript is amazing. Reason one being the documentation of all core types, not forcing all developers to keep them in their head at all time. On Monday, June 13, 2016 at 3:28:29 PM UTC+2,

Re: [elm-discuss] Type Checking in non-Pure Languages

2016-06-13 Thread John Orford
I suppose, what I am getting at, is what do you lose when you lose the preciseness you get w purity. What's it feel like compared to Elm for example? Anyone have any anecdotes? On Mon, 13 Jun 2016 at 16:09 Joel McCracken wrote: > I think you get a lot of value. > > I

[elm-discuss] Type Checking in non-Pure Languages

2016-06-13 Thread John Orford
A little off topic, but how much bang for the buck does type checking get you in languages like Reason, OCaml and F# etc.? It's one of my favourite features in Elm, and I suspect you would lose a lot by relaxing purity - even though a major selling point of though those languages is of course the

Re: [elm-discuss] Is Elm.worker gone in 0.17?

2016-06-13 Thread Pietro Grandi
Hi Tobias, I'm doing the same tutorial and trying to re-write it for the 0.17. I also stumbled across the timeout issue: basically without the timeout I can't see any message I send to the port from javascript. Is there any clue about the reason why is it behaving this way? Since I'm making