The Benefits of Working in Elm

The friendliness of the compiler like error messages that definitely goes a very long way other languages have static types and I don't feel the same productivity there aren't many other languages that do semantic or similar versioning the same way Elm does. The culture of moving a little bit slower to an extent like packages for example tend to move a little more slowly than JavaScript. There isn't a new feature in every package every day and I think I see that a lot more with Elm.

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Elm Town 60 – Productivity and the culture of moving a little bit slower

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The Benefits of Working in Elm

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[00:00:22] Sponsored by Logistically

[00:01:02] Introducing Wolfgang Schuster

[00:02:55] Seeing Elm everywhere

[00:04:45] Going all-in on programming

[00:10:23] "Just make it work"

[00:13:18] Discovering Elm

[00:25:27] Helping to build stuff with Elm while at Square

[00:28:39] Strategies for introducing Elm

[00:35:09] Productivity & "the culture of moving a little bit slower"

[00:41:09] Introducing elm-review rules

[00:54:20] Elm at Vendr

[00:58:09] Using Elm at scale

[01:03:43] Strategies for adding web components

[01:07:29] Roc

[01:10:49] Picks

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