Thursday 26 June 2014

Today I discovered Elm

Web pages are broke. They always were, from the inception of html, to all the fixes: css, JavaScript, DHTML, Ajax. Now we have an explosion of fixes: sass, lass, Jade, JRX, an explosion of MVM and, even MVVM frameworks. An army of languages to write JavaScript with. Are we doomed to ever more complexity; cludge piled upon fix glued together by compromise?

Is there a light at the end of the tunnel? Today I discovered Elm. Video presentations:

Some links

Academic (papers)

And a Haskell page to remember.

F# computation expressions