{"author_name":"shcromlet","cat":"LD #33","comments":[],"epoch":1439778300,"likes":2,"metadata":{"p_key":"16861","p_author":"shcromlet","p_authorkey":"44368","p_urlkey":"52154","p_title":"Well, on second thought, how about Elm?","p_cat":"LD #33","p_event":"LD33","p_time":"1439778300","p_likes":"2","p_comments":"0","p_status":"UPD5","us_key":"44368","us_name":"shcromlet","us_username":"shcromlet","event_start":"1440115200","event_key":"29","event_name":"LD33"},"text":"

Was planning on using Haskell, but you know what? I do<\/em> want people to be able to play my game. \u00a0It’s \u00a0more fun that way.<\/p>\n

I toyed around with Elm<\/a>\u00a0last year sometime and found it interesting, but didn’t have any real use for it. \u00a0But it’s perfect for LD — just compiles right to Javascript. \u00a0No downloadin’ nothin’.\u00a0\u00a0 I managed to whip up a little 2D fly-around-in-space demo<\/a> today, and I’m pretty pleased with it, haha. \u00a0It clocks in at 117 lines of code<\/a>, but a lot of those lines are pretty…light.<\/p>\n

Functional reactive programming is so sexy. \u00a0And I like using underdog programming languages. \u00a0And it’s close enough to Haskell for my purposes.<\/p>\n

wooooo<\/p>","time":"August 16th, 2015 9:25 pm","title":"Well, on second thought, how about Elm?"}