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> Makes it more and more tempting to just go straigth to the source and simply use Elm.

Redux was inspired by Elm's update concept, not React.

I was on that train of thought too after using Redux had the side effect of giving me a conceptual understanding of how the update step works in Elm, but I found that "simply" really isn't the right word if your experience is primarily with imperative languages.

e.g. building an app starting from HTML5 history and routing built on top of it is just another API if you already know JavaScript, but it's an entire new set of concepts to learn if you're not au fait with functional programming, as I quickly discovered!