Elm

The best of functional programming in your browser

Sergio Alexander Florez

@xergioalex

www.rockalabs.com

The beginning

• Elm was designed by Evan Czaplicki as his thesis in 2012 as part of his studies on Computer Science.
• Evan Join to Prezi in 2013 to work full-time in Elm.
• And in 2016 moved to NoRedInk as an Open Source Engineer, also starting the Elm Software Foundation.

Making the web Functional

• Functional Language.
• Declarative programming
• Designed for the web
• Functional Reactive Programming (FRP)
• Centering on Graphical User Interfaces (GUI)

Installation

npm i -g elm

• Elm: The core way to run the other tools.
• Elm-package: Package Manager.
• Elm-make: Used to compile Elm programs to HTML and JavaScript.
• Elm-repl: Command line interface.
• Elm-reactor: With elm-reactor you can run Elm programs without needing to compile them first.

Elm

The best of functional programming in your browser

Sergio Alexander Florez

@xergioalex

www.rockalabs.com