Chapter 1. Welcome to Elm
This chapter covers
- Introducing Elm to a project
- Using elm repl
- Building expressions
- Writing and importing functions
- Working with collections
Back in 2014, I set out to rewrite a side project and ended up with a new favorite programming language. Not only was the rewritten code faster, more reliable, and easier to maintain, but writing it was the most fun I’d had in over a decade of writing code. Ever since that project, I’ve been hooked on Elm.
The rewrite in question was a writing application I’d built even longer ago, in 2011. Having tried out several writing apps over the course of writing a novel, and being satisfied with none, I decided to scratch my own itch and build my dream writing app. I called it Dreamwriter. ...
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