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Elm Weekly - Issue #141

Lots of tips from elm.christmas, a pool game from Elm Game Jam, and a talk on what FP can learn from
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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
Unpacking Records
Jørgen Tu Sveli shows how to destructure records.
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Single-Constructor Custom Types
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
The power of let expressions
Ragnhild Aalvik dives into destructuring in let expressions.
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Letting functions in
Letting functions in
Isak Sunde Singh discusses defining functions in let expressions.
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Climbing trees
Climbing trees
Ragnhild Aalvik shows how to work with nested custom types.
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Simplify your code with ad hoc tuples
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
Peeking Inside Lists
Aksel Wester provides neat examples of pattern matching on lists.
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Tools and Projects
Elm Game Jam: Pool
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
Lambda World 2018 - What FP can learn from Smalltalk by Aditya Siram
That's it for this week!
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