elm-conf-2016-notes

These are Scott Smith's (@_ofd - Old Fart Developer) notes and perceptions for the very first Elm-lang conference on Sept 15, 2016.

Overview

This conference's attendees were more excited about Elm than other language conferences I've attended in the last 5 years or so. There is common Elm joy because:

• If it compiles, there will be no Elm-caused runtime errors.
• Elm's functional language provides flexible modelling to preclude what might be hard to identify logical errors in other languages.
• Exciting things coming down the line vis-a-vis debugging and other "cool" features.
• Explanation and celebration of the Elm community's practices.

My Personal Objectives

• Here. For those of you who are interested in a more personal testamony of what I tried to accomplish at this conference and how well I felt I succeeded. Hint: I'm an old introvert; I've hated to "put myself out there", and this time I wanted to "not do that anymore".

Sessions

Each page below contains:

• What the presenter's purpose was.
• What I Got out of it
• My notes

Some of my notes are exhaustive for their sessions; I don't have notes for the remaining sessions.

1. Opening Keynote
2. Big Elm Apps
3. Compilers as Therapists
4. Lightning Talks
5. Rolling Random Romans
6. Building an Interactive Storytelling Framework in Elm
7. The Clockwork Gardener: Growing an Elm App With Templates
8. Nightingale.space - Elm and Crowd-Sourced Music Making
9. Making Impossible States Impossible
10. Q/A Session