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Compiler for Elm, a functional language for reliable webapps.

58 mentions on Hacker News by 46 people: 7 stories, 51 comments · first 2015-05-16 · latest 2026-08-25

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  1. When he removed the feature it was after consulting the community ( https://github.com/elm-lang/elm-compiler/issues/985 ).
    comment by Skinney · 2016-11-09 · in Elm is Wrong
  2. …is conceptually easy to understand in the span of a few paragraphs, like in the blog post. [1] https://github.com/elm-lang/elm-compiler/issues/1283 PS. I'm certain evancz has a reasoning behind his wish to keep the feature out of Elm. He…
    comment by mfukar · 2016-11-09 · in Elm is Wrong
  3. …of this feature on Github there seems to be a few more points made that the author alludes to: https://github.com/elm-lang/elm-compiler/issues/985 Also, It's worth noting that Elm does have a BDFL. Evan makes the call and, as I'm sure a…
    comment by benjaminjosephw · 2016-11-09 · in Elm is Wrong
  4. …have to reimplement instead of generalise. It is actively discussed in the Elm community ( https://github.com/elm-lang/elm-compiler/issues/1039 ), but with a Wait-And-See-Approach. In my opinion, this is really laudable, as it signals…
  5. …limited to front-end use. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elm_(programming_language)#Lim... [2] https://github.com/elm-lang/elm-compiler/issues/396
  6. No, and they're not planned either. There has been much discussion about them in the years: https://github.com/elm-lang/elm-compiler/issues/1039
    comment by doppioslash · 2016-05-10 · in A Farewell to FRP
  7. …Type: String Actual Type: number Evan said it wasn't so easy to fix. You can see the issue here: https://github.com/elm-lang/elm-compiler/issues/216 At the time I was trying to learn elm (and functional programming) and I didn't know it…
    comment by rnhmjoj · 2015-06-30 · in Compiler Errors for Humans
  8. …anyone trying to run the example code here: the syntax for importing modules changed in Elm 0.15. https://github.com/elm-lang/elm-compiler/blob/master/changel...