If you are interested in contributing to Elm development, I would recommend checking out the projects page <https://github.com/elm-lang/projects>, as well as subscribing to elm-dev
On Sat, Jul 16, 2016 at 12:12 AM, John Bugner <john.bug...@gmail.com> wrote: > What is the "web platform"? Is there a way I can contribute to this > project? > > On Friday, July 15, 2016 at 10:41:05 PM UTC-5, Nick H wrote: >> >> One big focus right now is adding support for the rest of the Web >> Platform to the standard library. >> >> If you haven't yet, you can subscribe to the elm-dev mailing list to keep >> abreast of what Evan is up to at the moment. >> >> On Fri, Jul 15, 2016 at 8:16 PM, John Bugner <john....@gmail.com> wrote: >> >>> I don't mean to sound pushy, but if "That's what people are familiar >>> with." is taken as a valid reason, then why not bring back 'atoi' and such >>> names then? Why not make the syntax more JS-like? Why not just make Elm yet >>> another imperative OO language? >>> >>> This is an opportunity for Elm to show that it takes seriously the task >>> of making programming easier. The fact that the world of programming has >>> for so long made itself arbitrarily difficult by having incomprehensible >>> function names (among many other sins) is something that programmers should >>> be ashamed of, not proud of. >>> >>> >>> On Wednesday, July 13, 2016 at 11:34:45 PM UTC-5, Max Goldstein wrote: >>>> >>>> It's great that Elm can appeal to new programmers, but it's mainly >>>> targeting web developers. As such, things like max/min, ||/&&, and "string" >>>> are going to stick around. No need to reinvent what's been standard(-ish) >>>> since C. >>>> >>>> The biggest name annoyance, IMHO, is *filter*. It doesn't immediately >>>> convey whether you're selecting in or out. For my money, Ruby got this one >>>> right: *select* and *reject*. They sound similar and they are similar, >>>> and the names convey which way the predicate goes. I wouldn't be adverse to >>>> stealing a few other Ruby or near-Ruby names; perhaps List.includes instead >>>> of member, and reduce to replace foldl (dropping foldr and renaming it fold >>>> could also work). >>>> >>>> That said, I'm not convinced much of this will happen. Evan is a "big >>>> picture" guy, and this would break a lot of code, although deprecation >>>> (having both copies for awhile) could help. >>>> >>> -- >>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >>> Groups "Elm Discuss" group. >>> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send >>> an email to elm-discuss...@googlegroups.com. >>> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >>> >> >> -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Elm Discuss" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to elm-discuss+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Elm Discuss" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to elm-discuss+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
