Day 2: Taming Callbacks
In Day 2, we’re going to build the skills necessary to attack the most sophisticated of user interface problems: building a game. We’re going to learn to handle user input and output, the most difficult concepts for functional languages. We’ll also learn to display images. You’ll find that Elm is a natural language for doing so.
As a wanna-be browser language, Elm has a big disadvantage. It’s not JavaScript. You’ll need to rely on another layer in the browser to compile Elm to JavaScript. But Elm also has a huge advantage.
It’s not JavaScript.
If you want to herd sheep like a sheep dog, you don’t necessarily have to be a dog. You just have to herd sheep.
Before we get rolling, let’s spend some time with Evan Czaplicki, ...
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