Elm

Posts about the Elm programming language.

Quick update on ELMO-8 and Elm 0.18

Super quick update on ELMO-8: 1. Elm 0.18 came out and brings some really interesting debugging options (yay!) 2. Elm 0.18 came out and not all of ELMO-8's dependencies have updated yet (boo!) (In particular elm-community/webgl and elm-community/linear-algebra need to be published with updated

Screenshot of "hello world" in ELMO-8

Working on ELMO-8

I've been busy over the past few months working on various different things (and a job change!). I helped give a workshop at Joy of Coding 2016 which aspired to build a small platformer using Elm. Alas two things worked against us: Elm 0.17 came out which

ELMO-8: Now With Fonts

Quick update: cute 8-bit fonts work in ELMO-8 now. Thanks to WebGL Fundamentals for the correct matrix footwork (WebGL 2D Matrices). I never bothered to get the correct font metrics, and I'm torn as to whether it's worth doing. I rather like the whimsical offsets characters

Photo of Michael presenting his slides in a dark pub

Elm 0.17 at Elm Dublin Meetup May 2016

Michael talks about Elm

Elm 0.17 Is Out!

The long awaited update to Elm is out, 0.17. This release features a huge simplification of aspects which people (ok, me) found confusing, making it much easier to wire together components. Elm seems to be moving towards a more Erlang like experience for concurrency, which isn't a

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

Oops, I Elm Tutorial'd Again

So I got "tricked" into running another Elm tutorial. This time I tried to focus more on Signals and the graphics, and less on HTML. Overall I think it went better, but everyone (including me) ran out of steam after the food arrived, so I should have stopped