Exploring Elm from a PureScript developer's perspective - first impressions, key differences, and initial thoughts on the ecosystem.
Elm is widely regarded as an accessible option for beginners transitioning from JavaScript or TypeScript. In this post, I will present my initial impressions of Elm by creating a depth-first search maze generation animation - this animation can be viewed in the heading. Additionally, I will discuss my thoughts on the Elm architecture.
Elm is widely regarded as a beginner friendly language. I think the Model-View-Update approach makes a lot of sense, especially for applying functional programming to web development. However, I believe that it can produce unnecessary cognitive overhead for simple problems. In this post, I will elaborate more on what I mean by that, and how I think it compares to PureScript.
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