[dzonga]

used elm between 2016-17.

it taught me a lot of things - such as simplicity. when I ended up switching to react - redux was easy to pick up cz of elm.

sadly the ecosystem never grew. but oh man elm is nice & the apps were performant.

[sesm]

What's the Elm definition of simplicity? Genuinely asking, because the concept of simplicity is very vague and overloaded in programming.

[xn]

The Elm Architecture[1] makes it easy to reason about code. You render the current state. You create a new state by applying a message to the current state.

1. https://guide.elm-lang.org/architecture/

[threethirtytwo]

You really need to use it to see the light. It's like reading about programming and actually programming. You don't understand programming until you actually program.

You won't understand why elm is simple until you actually use elm to the point of internal understanding. I think doing this is much harder nowadays given that most people would likely use an LLM to do most of the coding.

[dzonga]

said it better than me.