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Why I’m Leaving Elm
Why I can't use Elm, and can't recommend it to others.
Luke Plant
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We need less powerful languages
We need languages and systems that are less powerful, not more powerful, and easy ways to create and use such languages.
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Python's “disappointing” superpowers
A response to Hillel Wayne’s “I am disappointed by dynamic typing”
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Why Learning Haskell/Python Makes You a Worse Programmer
A rant about how annoying programming in C# is, really.