What's so special about Elm?

This presentation was given at Webbisauna (https://www.webbisauna.fi/) on April 1st, 2016.

The slides themselves don't tell that much, but the talk was recorded, so hopefully I can link the video here sooner or later.

Transcript

1. What’s so special about Elm? Ossi Hanhinen Futurice @ohanhi
2. What we used to do
3. jQuery Hello Tampere Tampere event listener change
4. jQuery Hello Tampere Tampere event listener change Ajax change
5. React Just the UI Redux Predictable state
6. Single State Model View map
7. Single Update Action Update View View Model
8. Single Update Action Update User View Model View
9. I thought this talk was supposed to be about Elm!?
10. React is JavaScript
11. Elm is Elm
12. Functional Programming
13. Is your function pure?
14. Is your function pure?
15. In Elm all functions are pure
16. Currying and Partial Application
17. Demo: Currying
18. Functional Reactive Programming
19. Demo: Interactive app
20. Language features
21. elm Strong static types That don’t get in the way
22. Elm has guarantees
23. zero runtime exceptions
24. Tools elm-make - Build Elm and catch errors ahead of time elm-package - Package manager that enforces SemVer elm-reactor - Hot swapping and time-traveling since 2013 elm-format - Automatic code beautification
25. “Go and learn Elm. Seriously. It is the simplest language I have ever tried, and the team has put a crazy lot of effort into making the developer experience as nice as possible.” @ohanhi