Dec 9, 2020

Elm Weekly - Issue #141

By Alex Korban • Issue #141 • View online

Lots of tips from elm.christmas, a pool game from Elm Game Jam, and a talk on what FP can learn from Smalltalk.

Articles and Discussion

This week, there are a whole lot of tips published as part of elm.christmas:

Unpacking Records

Jørgen Tu Sveli shows how to destructure records.

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Single-Constructor Custom Types

Aksel Wester explains the point of custom types which only have a single constructor.

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The power of let expressions

Ragnhild Aalvik dives into destructuring in let expressions.

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Letting functions in

Isak Sunde Singh discusses defining functions in let expressions.

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Climbing trees

Ragnhild Aalvik shows how to work with nested custom types.

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Simplify your code with ad hoc tuples

Holger Ludvigsen demonstrates how to simplify code with tuples in case expressions.

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Peeking Inside Lists

Aksel Wester provides neat examples of pattern matching on lists.

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Tools and Projects

Elm Game Jam: Pool

As part of the Elm Game Jam #5, Andrey Kuzmin and Jared Smith are collaborating on a physically simulated pool game using w0rm/elm-physics, ianmackenzie/elm-3d-scene. You can find the source on GitHub.

The game jam is continuing until the end of the month, so you can still take part with your own game!

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Talks

With conferences cancelled this year, Elm talks are getting hard to come by, so I’m going to experiment a bit by including talks about functional programming more generally.

This talk by Aditya Siram should be interesting for people who want to improve the Elm development experience:

Lambda World 2018 - What FP can learn from Smalltalk by Aditya Siram

That's it for this week!

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