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