Speaking

Elm @ DublinJS February 2016

I gave a short Elm talk to the DublinJS meetup, extolling the virtues of functional programming.

To be honest, I was expecting a very hostile audience but it was super friendly (yay!) and I got really excellent questions. There should be video of that, so hopefully if you can scrub past me you can get to the questions :)

You can find my slides and examples on Github. You can view the slides on SlideShare.

Most importantly, I really recommend watching Evan's talk, it's fun and really gives you the feel for Elm's philosophy, and is much better than my talk :)

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