LET: Adding Local Bindings to a Tiny Interpreter in Elm

Where Dwayne adds support for defining names for variables.

Tools and Projects

algebraicsystems/elm-unicode-normalize

A pure Elm implementation of the Unicode Normalization algorithm

pablohirafuji/elm-syntax-highlight 3.8.0

Now with support for custom highlighting.

Talks and Podcasts

Help us decide the location for Elm Camp 2027

The Elm Camp committee has begun planning for 2027 and could use your help.

That’s it for this week!

VAR: Adding Variables and Environments to a Tiny Interpreter in Elm

The introduction of variable references and environments.

Tools and Projects

elm-test 0.19.2-1

This release adds a few CLI options, reduces the dependency footprint, and fixes a bug.

Liikennematto alpha 4, the "quality of life update", out now!

This update focuses on improving gameplay based on player feedback from Alpha 3. There's a bunch of new content as well.

gampleman/evg 1.0.0

A vector graphics library for improving the ergonomics of working with SVG.

That’s it for this week!

IF: Adding Conditional Expressions to a Tiny Interpreter in Elm

The next installment in Dwayne's Tiny Interpreter series.

Solving the 1+N Query Problem

Evan discusses the 1+N problem and how Acadia addresses it.

Tools and Projects

A template for small Elm apps, and a way to specify a specify version of Elm for each

A template for simple Elm apps.

Elm Bun – Nice, Simple and Tasty

A means to just do either bun build.js (for production), or bun dev.js (for development).

That’s it for this week!

Rethinking Database Programming

The public alpha release of Evan’s new project, Acadia.

DIFF: Adding Recursive Expressions to a Tiny Interpreter in Elm

Dwayne adds the first recursive expression to their interpreter.

ZERO: Adding Booleans and Runtime Type Errors to a Tiny Interpreter in Elm

The next phase of Dwayne’s tiny interpreter project.

Tools and Projects

Project Management Software Built with Elm and Lamdera

Agile-native project management software built with Elm and Lamdera.

That’s it for this week!

Learning about myself through Elm

A self review of enjoying Elm.

Testing an Elm Interpreter with elm-test

Part 2 of Dwayne's series on building a tiny interpreter.

Tools and Projects

Crunchdown!

A retro football like game.

Talks and Podcasts

functional programming is just better

A short video for why to use Elm.

That’s it for this week!

Improving Elm PRNG

A bug is uncovered in the de facto PRNG library in the Elm language ecosystem and alternative PRNG algorithms are suggested.

CONST: The Structure of a Tiny Interpreter in Elm

The first issue of Dwayne Crook’s new series on building a tiny interpreter.

Tools and Projects

anddani/nelm 1.0.0

A headless NES emulator core.

elm-wss: Simple WebSockets for Elm

elm-wss makes browser WebSockets straightforward to use from Elm 0.19. Its small, typed API supports multiple connections, text, binary, and JSON messages, and explicit lifecycle and error handling.

That’s it for this week!

Systems and Delays

Martin Janiczek talks about systems, delays, Monte Carlo, and more.

Introducing Tiny Interpreters: Learn How Programming Languages Work Without Fighting the Dragon

A new newsletter series from Dwayne about building a tiny interpreter.

Tools and Projects

Ball Fall

A game from Wolfgang for GMTK Game Jam 2026.

Power Hungry

A game from Leonardo for GMTK Game Jam 2026.

That’s it for this week!

Archipeladoku

Sudoku for Archipelago.

Sharry

A self-hosted file sharing web application.

Data Stewardship Wizard

A platform for collaborative and living data management plans.

That’s it for this week!

elm-test-rs 3.2.0

Better support for Elm 0.19.2 and future versions, as well as many other fixes.

elm-tooling 1.20.0

Updates for the latest version of various Elm tools.

elm-tooling-action 2.1.0

Updates to the GitHub elm-tooling Action to support Elm 0.19.2 and newer versions of various Elm tools.

Talks and Podcasts

世界がない物理エンジン (Physics engine with no world)

Interactive slides from Andrey Kuzmin's talk about elm-physics.

That’s it for this week!

Road to Elm 1.0

Evan has a lot of compiler improvements piled up, and the road to 1.0 is essentially to incorporate them into Elm in a sequence of small releases. This release is a little compiler performance improvement to just get things started.

Mini game 1 + 2 = 3 (now with less time)

Marc takes another look at their mini math game and applies some minor improvements.

Tools and Projects

Elm-ts-types: Generate TypeScript typings for the JavaScript interface of Elm apps

A tool for generating TS types from your Elm code.

That’s it for this week!

A batch job, in The Elm Architecture

Building a batch processing CLI tool with Elm.

Tools and Projects

elm-open-api v0.8.0

A new release of the elm-open-api CLI tool with many, many new features.

elm-ray-tracing-in-one-weekend

An implementation of Ray Tracing in One Weekend.

Talks and Podcasts

Tech Demo: Lamdera - less glue code

Martin Janiczek will be giving a talk about using Lamdera to build his game NuAshworld.

That’s it for this week!

Haskell for Elm developers: giving names to stuff (Part 8 - IO)

Falvio answers “if Haskell is pure, how does it print to the screen, read files or make HTTP requests?”

Foldkit vs Elm: Side by Side

A side by side comparison of a pixel art editor in Elm and Foldkit.

Tools and Projects

Eco - Compile Elm to native code

The alpha release of another Elm to Native compiler.

JLPT Blocks

A game for practicing Japanese words.

That’s it for this week!

Articles and Discussion

Native Elm (the real kind this time)

Christian Ekrem gives a brief overview of using elm-run for native Elm apps.

That’s it for this week!

elm-run project, the first true native Elm runtime

Damir's elm-run project, the Elm native runtime is now in first beta after six months of closed development! The first beta includes Cli, TUI, Web, and Game runtimes.

Wrap Kits

elm-wrap 0.7 lets you manage and install kits of your packages and tools,
like a portable private package repository.

An Elm Primer for React Developers: The Best Way to Learn Real Functional Programming

A new book, by Christian Ekrem, for teaching functional programming and Elm.

Jobs

StorageMart/Manhattan Mini Storage

Join a growing team at one of the largest independent self-storage providers in the world! 1-3 years of professional web development experience (internships and personal projects count). Full-time salaried position, PTO, Medical, Dental, Vision, 401K. Stack includes Elm, elm-pages, TypeScript, Node, and AWS. US applicants only; must already be authorized to work in the USA.

That’s it for this week!

hayleigh-dot-dev/elm-lustre-ui

A collection of unstyled, primitive Web Components built with [Lustre](https://hexdocs.pm/lustre/index.html).

Programming in Elm for Pebble watches

A new IDE, Elm to C compiler and much more for building apps for Pebble watches.

That’s it for this week!

gampleman/elm-bench

A complete benchmarking toolkit for Elm.

bcardiff/elm-rad

A declarative DSL for building Elm applications as a reactive graph of cells, sources, and reactions.

Talks and Podcasts

Elm Town 90 – Wonder: Contorting yourself with Ari Schlesinger

Jared talks with Ari Schlesinger about how programming languages shape society and so much more.

That’s it for this week!

A time-traveling full-stack test debugger

A new end-to-end testing API and visual test viewer for elm-pages.

Tools and Projects

elm-cardano/blake2b

Pure Elm implementation of the BLAKE2b cryptographic hash function (RFC 7693).

elm-cardano/json-ld

JSON-LD parsing, N-Quads serialization, and RDFC-1.0 canonicalization for Elm.

That’s it for this week!

elm-json-lenses

An experimental package from Dwayne Crooks for working with JSON.

w0rm/elm-physics v6

A vareity of new features and improvements.

elm-cardano/base64

Fast Base64 encoding and decoding for Elm Bytes.

elm-cardano/sha2

Fast SHA-224, SHA-256, SHA-384 and SHA-512 hashing for Elm Bytes.

That’s it for this week!

v6 of the Elm plugin for IntelliJ

Added support for elm-test-rs, elm-wrap, reworked the elm-review panel, rebuilt the elm compiler panel, and lots more!

miniBill/elm-picture

Easily generate picture tags in Elm.

elm-ast

A Rust library for parsing and constructing Elm ASTs.

New version of Marten Truu's Elm language server

Suport for document symbols, formatting (via elm-format), renaming, and more.

That’s it for this week!

Building a better crossword page for my daily cryptic hit

Notes on building a UI for the Guardian crossword puzzle.

Tools and Projects

elm-cardano/x-bytes

Fast hex encoding/decoding and comparable byte sequences for Elm.

That’s it for this week!