📖 Elm Guide: the good and the bad

[badlydrawnrob]

Elm Guide is a succinct and easy-entry into
the world of Elm lang. It's accessible and the
writing is jovial and not too academic.

The hard part is going from beginner to intermediate topics. As in the Elm in Action book, topics like recursive types, decoders, and more complex SPA (apps) are a bit of a leap from simple programs. I generally find it harder to reason about programs as they grow in size, with a few moving parts.

We don't download Elm until ....

The guide covers quite a lot of ground before it asks us to install the compiler. So we've covered the basics, types, commands, subscriptions, packages, etc. This is quite a nice touch, although I already had Elm installed.

Some bits are missing, and examples are lacking

The Elm guide only takes you so far, and the more advanced stuff doesn't have so many walk-through examples.