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Elm is a pure, functional language that compiles to javascript
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module HelloWorld exposing (helloWorld)


helloWorld : Maybe String -> String
helloWorld maybeName =
    case maybeName of
        Nothing ->
            "Hello, World!"

        Just name ->
            "Hello, " ++ name ++ "!"

Elm describes itself as a "delightful language for reliable webapps". It aims at producing web applications with great performances and no runtime exception.

Concretly, it is a functional programming language compiling to JavaScript. Its syntax and features originated from the ML family of languages, such as Haskell, but with a strong emphasis on learnability and simplicity.

You can learn more about elm on the official website, elm-lang.org. Newcomers should start with the elm guide, located at guide.elm-lang.org.

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Meet the Elm Track mentors

Once you join the Elm language track, you will receive support and feedback from our team of mentors. Here are the bios of a few of the mentors of this track.

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I'm a software lead / architect / manager type thing and I have a strong focus on code quality. Elm is the first functional language I've learned and it's impressively easy. The language has a strong focus on simplicity and a single recommended way of doing things, which is a refreshing change in the Front End world. It sits very well in it's target niche, and the runtime essentially provides an impure abstract syntax tree interpreter, leaving all your code 100% pure / functional. There is a strong and vibrant community, which is both innovative and supportive to newcomers.
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Anthony Deschamps https://github.com/adeschamps

I use Elm for hobby projects and occasionally at work. I like it for a lot of technical reasons, but most of all for the great community.
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Nathan Chere https://nathanchere.com.au

I like to code.
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Aaron Strick website

Elm was my introduction to typed languages and a gateway for me to functional programming. I was lucky enough to learn it on the job, and have since adopted it as my main frontend language.
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Christoph Lipp https://github.com/ser1us

I use Elm for all my personal projects where I need a frontend framework (instead of React for example). Elm's development is "slow" compared to other languages but this makes it even more appealing to me.
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Vasanth Pappu

I am drawn to Elm because it is a safe, reliable, and refactorable alternative to building webapps. It's an approachable language that not only supports the dynamic nature of greenfield projects, but it can also be adopted in small steps within legacy apps implemented in other front-end solutions.
Fun. Challenging. Interesting

Community-sourced Elm exercises

These are a few of the 46 exercises on the Elm track. You can see all the exercises here.

Space Age
easy
floating point numbers
Robot Simulator
easy
records
tuples
Accumulate
easy
recursion
transforming
Wordy
hard
parsing
Hello World
easy
strings
Nucleotide Count
easy
maps
strings
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Meet the Elm Track maintainers

The Elm Maintainers are the brains behind the Elm Track. They spend their spare time creating interesting and challenging exercises that we can all learn from. We are incredibly grateful for their hard work. Here are the bios of a few of the maintainers of this track.

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Matthieu Pizenberg

Passionate about robotics, photo, computer vision, and raclette!
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Cedd Burge Blog posts

I am a software lead / manager / architect type thing. I mostly program in Elm, C#, Python, Typescript and Delphi. I mentor on Exercism and for Code First Girls
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Kenneth Bogner

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