The Elm Programming Language

[Shiyaz Rasheed]

I posted on the Google+ event page for this month on the VList data structure... Found from @BrisFunctional just now that a theme had been decided already: the functional web stack.

Apologies... Here is a treat to make up for it. And it's on topic (:

http://elm-lang.org/

"Elm aims to make front-end web development more pleasant. It introduces a new approach to GUI programming that corrects the systemic problems that make HTML, CSS, and JavaScript a headache to use. Strongly influenced by Haskell and Functional Reactive Programming, Elm allows you to quickly and easily work with visual layout, create scenes with HTML5’s canvas, make asynchronous requests, and handle complicated user input."

[Arwyn]

Functional Reactive Programming is a topic I'd love to get into.

I see it as a way of dealing with a world where everything changes all the time but without giving up immutability.

I've seen it used for games and animation and I think it could be good for robotics which is where I'd like to apply it.

Here is one of the best descriptions I've found:

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1028250/what-is-functional-reactive-programming

It links to other resources. 

Conal Elliot seems to be a pioneer in the field.

Paul Hudak, author of "The Haskell School of Expression", is another.

Cheers,

Arwyn