Elm at Scale: Surprises and Pain Points
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The ups and downs of Culture Amp’s rollout of Elm - a pure functional, strongly typed language for building web front ends - to its commercial, production application, and a team of engineers familiar with JavaScript and React.
When we began experimenting with Elm in production nearly two years ago, we immediately encountered a number of surprises (confident refactoring, helpful compiler errors) and pain points (CSS integration, DOM access). Nevertheless, the positive impact on the team's productivity was undeniable.
As our single-team experiment has grown across teams to the point where we are now writing as much Elm as we are JavaScript, the surprises and pain points have changed. We've solved some of our initial challenges and open-sourced those solutions (CSS integration), while new surprises like Elm's impact on hiring and compiler performance on large projects have appeared.
About Kevin Yank
Culture Amp’s Director of Front End Engineering, Kevin previously spent a decade teaching a generation of developers about web standards at SitePoint, where he also helped to launch success stories like 99designs and Flippa. More recently, he quizzed web developers on HTML, CSS and JavaScript by leading the team behind Sit the Test, and has spoken at tech conferences around the world. On weekends he performs improvised theatre with Impro Melbourne, which is a lot more like building websites than you might expect.
5 июл 2024
