Erkal Selman shares the story behind Kite, a web application for drawing and exploring directed graphs written entirely in Elm.
Thank you to our sponsors, Ellie, Culture Amp and Joel Clermont.
Special thanks to Xavier Ho (@Xavier_Ho) for editing and production of this episode!
Recording date: 25 January 2019
Guests
Show Notes
00:00:00 Introduction
00:01:34 Guest intro
00:04:59 Graph theory
00:07:08 Origins of Kite
00:10:13 Elm benefits
00:12:15 Inspirations
00:13:24 D3.js via JavaScript interop
00:18:42 Replacing D3.js with elm-visualisation
00:20:37 It's Darth Vader!!!
00:21:05 Ian MacKenzie's elm-geometry
00:23:17 Matthew Griffith's elm-ui
00:25:41 Performance bottlenecks
00:27:09 Importing Elm dependency graphs
00:29:44 Multiple centers of gravity
00:30:54 Planned features, welcomed contributions
00:34:20 Erkal wants a job!
00:35:03 Outro and the Sublime Text Editor Integration
