[ptdel]

I haven't really worked with any client-side languages before, so I picked up Elm because it was similar to other languages I'd used in the past. It's got a unique approach to things and an incredibly active community. It's adoption is not as widespread though. Most of my coworkers swear by React and Vue.

[starlingforge]

Does Elm's charm wear off if you aren't already a functional programmer? What were your favorite learning resources?

[ptdel]

I was familiar with Haskell but I wouldn't consider myself a functional programmer, most of my career has been on the Object Oriented side of things. I actually found it to be quite approachable. It's charm has stayed so far as I've found it offers a lot of advantages in terms of code re-use. The elm-lang.org resources, hosted Core lib documentation were most of what I've used. They have live examples in a web repl that is helpful. I would recommend checking with their git though as the pace of the languages development can go through spurts.