http://localhost:1313/tags/elm/ Recent content in Elm on yomimono - something to read Hugo en-us Sun, 09 Mar 2014 16:57:45 +0000 http://localhost:1313/blog/2014/03/09/finding-kitten/ Sun, 09 Mar 2014 16:57:45 +0000 http://localhost:1313/blog/2014/03/09/finding-kitten/ <h2 id="robot-finds-kitten">Robot Finds Kitten</h2> <p><figure class="right"><img src="http://localhost:1313/images/digital_clock.png"> </figure> Sometime way back in the past, a human who wanted me to feel joy introduced me to <a href="http://www.robotfindskitten.org">Robot Finds Kitten</a>, a Zen simulation which is pretty close to exactly what it says on the tin. There are already <a href="http://robotfindskitten.org/aw.cgi?main=software.rfk">quite a lot of ports</a> of the original POSIX implementation, but none of them were written in <a href="http://elm-lang.org/">Elm</a>. Obviously this is a problem that needs fixing.</p> <p>Before I get into the gory details of learning Elm via robots, I should tell you that my implementation is available for free play (edit: sorry, this has bitrotted too much to be included anymore), and <a href="https://www.github.com/yomimono/elm-finds-kitten">you can also go look at the source code</a>.</p> <h2 id="elm">Elm</h2> <p>I got a really wonderful introduction to Elm when Evan Czaplicki came to <a href="http://www.hackerschool.com">Hacker School</a> in our second week. We got a slightly adapted version of <a href="http://www.infoq.com/presentations/elm-reactive-programming">this talk from StrangeLoop 2013</a>, which moved me to make a browser game (something I&rsquo;ve never wanted to do at any previous point in life). The language seemed elegant and expressive, for lack of less cliched words, and I thought it might be relatively simple to make a succinct Robot Finds Kitten clone.</p>