My final day with Elm, at least for now started out a bit challenging. As before, the examples in the book are for elm version 0.13 not 0.14 and there has been enough change that porting the example program across was annoying. But after that, the whole thing became a lot more fun. You see, d …

As it turns out quite a lot has changed in Elm between the release in the book and the current 0.14 version. Which made things more challenging than perhaps I may have liked. Still, it has been a good way of getting to know the documentation. Virtue of necessity and all that.You can find a port of …

I am pretty excited about the latest installment of my Seven More Languages journey. Elm is a functional reactive programming (FRP) language with an Haskell-like syntax that compiles to Javascript. The idea is to be able to write in a language with a decent type system and support for FRP, without h …

Back in 2011, I took up the challenge of learning Seven Languages in Seven Weeks. The book is Bruce Tate’s tour through seven of the most interesting languages about.I learned about concurrency models, functional programming and the unique qualities of Ruby, Io, Erlang, Scala, Prolog, Co …

Back in 2011, I took up the challenge of learning Seven Languages in Seven Weeks. The book is Bruce Tate’s tour through seven of the most interesting languages about. I eventually finished working my way through the exercises and blogging about it in early 2012, almost a year after starting. …