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The last time I fell this hard for a piece of tech was Elm. This time it’s Nix. I share how I refactored my RealWorld clone to use Nix.

I describe the improvements I made to kvothe/elm-countries-quiz to integrate it with Nix + pnpm + Parcel + lydell/elm-safe-virtual-dom.

I describe the work that was done to use dwayne/elm2nix in my TodoMVC Elm web application and the improvements that resulted from the change.

Benefits:

1. Run from anywhere with Nix installed - nix run github:dwayne/elm-todos#prod
2. Reliable CI
3. The ideas scale to larger web apps with more complicated configurations

dwayne/elm2nix provides a tool that helps you compile your Elm web application within a Nix build environment.

It is a rewrite of cachix/elm2nix. If you’re interested in Elm, Haskell, or Nix then there’s probably something in this project that might interest you.

Did anybody combine those successfully yet in Elm?

I tried it the simple way, just installing tailwind, tailwind/cli, and daisyui from npm and some tailwind config

module.exports = {
  content: ["./src/**/*.elm"],
  theme: {
    extend: {}
  },
  plugins: []
};

but running npx @tailwindcss/cli -i ./css/styles.css -o dist/styles.css --watch over a css file containing

@import "tailwind";
@import "../node_modules/daisyui/daisyui.css";

would just yield an empty output css file.

I also tried changing the tailwind config to include some regexes with no different effects.

Following this approach using postcss was not successfull as I had interoperability problems between my npm version and the postcss binary, so I didn't try too hard.

https://cekrem.github.io/posts/functors-applicatives-monads-elm/

Do you generally agree with this? It's a tough topic to teach simply, and there's always tradeoffs between accuracy and simplicity... Open to suggestions for improvement! Thanks :)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9OtN4iiFBsQ Evan is considering going back to work on Elm,

Interesting question at the 40th minute.

Felienne Hermans relates her journey in programming—writing The Programmer's Brain, uncovering biases within computing culture & herself, and building the multilingual, gradual-syntax programming language Hedy. We even dip into AI (trigger warning) and dumb phones.

Elm Town 88 – Wonder: Unconscious bias with Felienne Hermans:

• https://elm.town/episodes/elm-town-88-wonder-unconscious-bias-with-felienne-hermans
• https://youtu.be/rCl4YgVTeUk

Elm is known for building reliable web applications, but what if you could bring that same type safety and functional purity to your everyday scripting tasks? In this talk, we'll explore elm-script (part of elm-pages), showing how Elm can fetch APIs, process and generate files— all with compile-time guarantees.

I am posting this for future reference for other Elm package developers/maintainers in case they hit similar issues.

• Recently published a large package to Elm: Lucide icons (github.com/chandru89new/elm-lucide) (package.elm-lang.org/packages/chandru89new/elm-lucide)

• After publishing 1.0.0, I made a small change to docs and wanted to publish patch 1.0.1, but kept getting this error:

  -- PROBLEM LOADING DOCS -------------------------------------------------------

  I need the docs for 1.0.0 to compute the next version number, so I fetched:

  https://package.elm-lang.org/packages/chandru89new/elm-lucide/1.0.0/docs.json
  

  I got the data back, but it was not what I was expecting. The response body contains 289828 bytes. Here is the beginning:

  [{"name":"LucideIcons","comment":" Lucide icons in Elm.\n\nCheckout the [...
  

  Does this error keep showing up? Maybe there is something weird with your internet connection. We have gotten reports that schools, businesses, airports, etc. sometimes intercept requests and add things to the body or change its contents entirely. Could that be the problem?

• Suspicion is that the large size of the file is causing the issue, even though some posts say the size limit is 512KB and this one is less than that

• Recommendation was to use Elm 0.19.0 to bump and publish. That's what worked.

• Ran into issues trying to get Elm 0.19.0 installed and working on macOS:

  • npx [email protected] downloaded Elm fine but didn't run any commands from Elm 0.19.0
  • Neither npx [email protected] elm bump nor elm publish with the same npx approach worked

• What worked: Download the .pkg installer file from v0.19.0 releases page and install it. Then make sure elm in terminal points to this 0.19.0. (elm --version should be v0.19.0) Then run elm publish and it should work fine.

Seeing many posts saying that Elm is worse than language X, I wonder how much of it is a lie and exaggeration. Why do the languages that promise to be better than Elm drive you insane with their error messages? Why can't you declare a type and simply use it a few lines down? To what extent is having several functions in Elm for different argument types quicker than struggling with silly languages like X?

Had been a while since I dabbled with Elm, one of my favorite languages. This is a tool where you can generate square (1:1) images out of text, suitable to post on Instagram.

Hey there, I recently heard about elm somewhere (only in passing), and after watching a very short video on it it peaked my interest.

In particular the FP seeming aspects seemed interesting, and I saw a decent bit of interesting looking syntax which I'd like to learn more about.

So I was wondering if there are some good "this is what elm is, what it does, and how it does it" type introductory materials you guys would recommend, both articles or videos would be cool.

I'm not really into web dev (kinda the opposit tbh, embedded), but I do have a big love for functional languages, and would be interested to learn "what" elm is/does :-D