Move fast and don't break things
Running a startup on elm
Nils Eriksson
Frontend developer
A small consultancy with big clients
- Pure functions
- Higher-order functions
- Immutable data structures
- Currying
- Static type checking
- No concept of Null
- The Elm Architecture
- Declarative UI
➜ Native
➜ Native
➜ Immutable.js
➜ Ramda.js
➜ Flow
➜ folktale/data.maybe
➜ Redux
➜ React.js
Hard to write terrible code
Fast and safe iteration
Helpful for intermediate programmers
Elm makes you a better programmer
Elm compiler :D
Elm Format <3
The elm Architecture
Easier to hire great talent
Elm is fast
Publicity
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Hard to write terrible code
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Fast and safe iteration
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Helpful for intermediate programmers
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Elm makes you a better programmer
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The Compiler, Elm Format, and The Elm Architecture
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Easier to hire good talent
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Elm is fast
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Publicity
30 KLOC later!
Objections that I don't agree with
It's not a stable release!
Hard for people to take over the project !
Problems we had
Dependent on the community
The elm compiler stopped working after 10 000 lines of code
Working against the paradigms
When not to use elm ?
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Thank you!
Nils Eriksson
@eriksson_ne
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Questions?
Nils Eriksson
@eriksson_ne
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