Elm: a functional reactive programming language that compiles to JavaScript
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2007–2026One slot for every year since HN launched. Height is that year's peak points; orange marks a 100+ point or 50+ comment breakout. Select a bar to open its strongest thread.
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HN comment orderHey, this is my project! :) I am surprised it got posted here, but I am also glad to see people are interested. One note on the title of this post: Elm compiles to HTML, CSS, and JS. Not just JS! I think this actually an extremely important distinction! It differentiates the project from templating libraries which still ultimately have you think and write in HTML. It also distinguishes it from scripting languages (like CoffeeScript) which also only address part…
Previous submission (with discussion): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3322082 (Presumably that submission is why this one (is) was forced to (incorrectly) have an extra /)
I think Elm is very interesting and inspiring. The time travel debugger especially is very impressive. However, can someone please tell me why Elm needs two kinds of values? There are simple values and then there are "signals". I don't understand why you need to make the distinction. If you want to apply a function to a signal, you need to use "lift". From the Elm documentation: "The lift functions are used to apply a normal function like sqrt to…
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- Breakout years
- 2
- Total points
- 285
- Total comments
- 91
100+ points or 50+ comments
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reference only — not used in Hall rules or ranking
Every submission
| Date | Title as submitted | By | Points | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2011-12-07 | Elm: a functional reactive programming language that compiles to JavaScriptFirst breakout · Best thread | Rusky | 132 | 50 |
| 2012-12-10 | Elm: declarative language that compiles to HTML, CSS and JS | 6ren | 107 | 30 |
| 2014-11-23 | Elm – functional reactive language for interactive applicationsLatest 20+ point return | Lenad | 40 | 11 |
| 2021-04-17 | Elm-lang: A delightful language for reliable web applications | modinfo | 3 | 0 |
| 2022-10-03 | Elm: A delightful language for reliable web applications | nyc111 | 3 | 0 |