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The Frontend of the Computer

Oxide and Friends

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Introduction

D'Hato and Adam were pretty into a language called Elm. It's a functional language for writing web UIs, basically. They would think of your UI as a pure function of the state of the program. And it had this neat feature called signals, which was a kind of a stream of data value that would change over time.

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