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Elm Weekly - Issue #146

Elm Weekly
Elm Weekly - Issue #146
By Alex Korban • Issue #146 • View online

Articles and Discussion
Elm at Rakuten
Elm at Rakuten
Luca Mugnaini’s post provides an in-depth perspective on the pros and cons of using Elm (and elm-ui!) at Rakuten, where they have ~100K lines of Elm code and a very positive overall impression: “The benefits are overwhelmingly in the majority, compared to the issues, and this is why we are happy with the choice we made.”
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Jeroen Engels provides an excellent walkthrough of removing unused code with elm-review, explaining how purity makes this type of analysis much more useful compared to a language like JavaScript.
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Kristian Pedersen reports his impressions of Elm after completing the 30 day Elm challenge.
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Tools and Projects
Brian Hicks has created a package for decoding CSV with an API that’s similar to JSON decoding.
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Kolja Lampe is looking for help with generating project ideas, organising and mentoring for GSOC.
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Simon Lydell informs us that the latest release of the elm-test test runner is smaller, runs tests faster, and has a more reliable watch mode.
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Talks and Podcasts
Elm Radio Episode 23: elm-format
Elm Radio Episode 23: elm-format
Jeroen Engels and Dillon Kearns discuss the core features and philosophy of elm-format, as well as some hidden productivity tricks for getting more out of it.
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