Elm, a simple and purely functional language for the front end

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A ScalaIO 2022 talk about using Elm for front-end work, based on the speaker’s year-long experience building the Azimutt app (~30k LOC). It explains Elm’s radical design choices—pure functional programming, extreme simplicity, an isolated ecosystem, and no exceptions—and shows how those features help reduce bugs and how the speaker applied Elm in their project.

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1. 0:00Introduction
2. 1:27Choosing Elm at Doctolib
3. 3:11Elm philosophy
4. 8:44Elm tools
5. 10:07JavaScript compatibility
6. 11:30Learning curve
7. 13:17Error absence design
8. 15:23Development pace
9. 16:05Demo: Elm app
10. 18:32Elm syntax
11. 23:45HTML render cycle
12. 25:11Elm setup
13. 29:47HTTP data handling
14. 36:36JS interop with ports
15. 38:21Local storage
16. 42:54Forms and random
17. 45:02System design
18. 47:08Elm review after 1.5y
19. 48:35Q&A

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