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Re:A nice app on Elm street by Anahkiasen on Monday September 16, 2019 @06:12AM (#20982592)
I didn't mean that only Javascript developers would be lost, more that Elm kind of "does its own thing" and as such some of its errors or mechanics can be a bit cryptic and require some more experience with the language.

It's not a language you can pick up and go as easily as Javascript is more what I meant, in my opinion at least unless, you're already familiar with pure and strictly typed languages.

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Re:A nice app on Elm street by yakshaving_jgt on Monday September 16, 2019 @06:37AM (#20982718)
I don't think Elm does its own thing. The ideas used in Elm are more "discovered" than "invented" (at least relative to JavaScript), if you're familiar with that line of thinking.

I also don't think its errors are cryptic. Elm's error messages are best in class.

> It's not a language you can pick up and go as easily as Javascript

I don't agree with this either. After having taught people Elm, and also JavaScript as a first language, I don't think mutability is more intuitive to a beginner.

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