Elm Weekly - Issue #174

Articles and Discussion

Making browser games more secure with Elm — medium.com

Maximilian Hoffman reports how diesdas.digital has started using Elm for mobile browser games, including an interesting solution for validating high scores inspired by the Elm debugger.

Elm in Wasm: Custom types and extensible Records

In the previously featured post, Brian Carroll wrote about representing Elm's built-in typeclasses in WebAssembly. This post moves on to considering the representation of custom types and extensible records.

Tools and Projects

Package releases (August 2021)

Jeroen Engels details the improvements in the latest releases of the elm-review-common, elm-review-unused, and elm-review-simplify rules for elm-review.

Meanwhile, the static analysis category of the Elm Catalog has grown to 40 packages thanks to people writing a variety of elm-review rules. It's worth checking out the many kinds of code checks and automatic fixes you can get with elm-review.

Talks and Podcasts

Elm Radio episode 37: Performance in Elm — elm-radio.com

Dillon Kearns and Jeroen Engels talk about the various aspects of performance, from tail-call optimisation to dead code elimination to algorithmic complexity.

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