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Elm is a pure, functional language that compiles to javascript
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About Elm

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.

Concretely, 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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Tom Leen, Portland
Relaxed. Encouraging. Supportive.

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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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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Nat Knight website

I like Elm for its friendliness: I'm more confident in my Elm code than I am in code in any other language, and I never feel pressured to use things I don't understand.
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Cedd Burge Blog Posts

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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Yeong Sheng, Tan https://github.com/yeongsheng-tan

I was working on our front-end EmberJS codebase back in 2014, and beginning to toy with ReactJS. Given I've not touched Javascript since 2005, EmberJS and ReactJS did not feel right at home for me. Then Redux came along, and that was when I found elm-lang which did everything that React+Redux provided, with a friendly compiler, less boiler-plate code, and the safety of no runtime ever once it compiles.
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Jake Varness GitHub Page

Elm is a great language for folks to learn functional programming. Elm was the first functional programming language I've learned, and is great for teaching fundamental concepts and paradigms used when creating single-page web applications!
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Léo Jeusset https://github.com/leojpod

I worked with Elm professionaly and I love it! Trusting the language is such a relief on your mind, as a developer you can really start to express yourself and let the code flow, the compiler will watch your back!
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.

Phone Number
easy
parsing
transforming
Isogram
easy
filtering
strings
Nucleotide Count
easy
maps
strings
Difference Of Squares
easy
integers
math
All Your Base
medium
integers
math
transforming
Passionate. Knowledgeable. Creative.

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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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

This maintainer has not added their bio yet.
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Matthieu Pizenberg

Passionate about robotics, photo, computer vision, and raclette!

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