I'm attempting #AdventofCode in #elm this year, which I will admit has been quite a challenge so far. #FunctionalProgramming is so weird!!! Hoping I start to see the light soon.
Answers here: https://github.com/bielsnohr/elm-advent-of-code
@mattasdata why elm? It has only half the useful parts of a functional language. A functional language that you can't define a Functor in - 😔
@antares I picked #elm because it kept popping up in things I was listening to and reading about functional programming, and consensus was that it was more approachable than some other languages. Also, I wanted to get into a bit of web development because that is something I haven't done before. I'm sure there are better options out there. What would you recommend as a more fully featured language?
@mattasdata #PureScript is a very well designed functional programming language that learned a lot from the mistakes of #Haskell and F#. It also targets #Javascript as itd output.