thrown in prison. In A World, where onions have been forbidden for 150 years. one man is trying to bring back onions, & getting arrested and thrown in prison. thats how they get you - health & safety regulations. you're not allowed to grow an onion because it's too dangerous. that's how they get you. In A World, where onions are illegal. coming to a movie theater near you
i will say that elm has a very, very nice dependency management system i've seen. one command to get everything into a project-local directory, with version ranges specified in the project config. and enforced semantic versioning -- you must actually bump the major version if you change the api
@tinybarks true, but i mean, it'd be even cooler if it compiled down to LLVM IR or could be called from C even though that'd be some effort. could be overestimating how much use that is these days π€·
it sure would be cool if Elm became, like, a competitor to Lua. an embedded Haskell-like functional language for scripting. it already does the job for one case
One big thing I argue for repeatedly on Mastodon is to not disengage from the social systems and big institutions. They are required for a high-complexity society such as ours, and one of the major keys to keeping them working is engagement and accountability, so that you can trust them, because you're involved and because you can believe in the accountability structures.
A canonical error of thinking is the OWS thinking of "the elites hate us", or the "elites want to oppress us". ... cont...
thinking about a very silly and crazy hack to do with elm. it can interop with javascript code, and have new effect handlers/optimizers, and node.js has a whole set of inputs and outputs that aren't yet connected up...