In this episode I talk with Zach Kessin. We talk his transition to using Elm for front-end web development, using it with Erlang back-ends, his goal to help grow the community around Elm, and more.Our Guest, Zach Kessin@zkessin on TwitterPain Free Web Development YouTube ChannelConference AnnouncementsRacketCon is October 7th & 8th at the University of Washington, with keynote speakers Dan Friedman and Will Byrd. Visit http://con.racket-lang.org/ for more information and to register.Celebrate the 10th anniversary of the release of Clojure October the 12th – 14th at the Clojure/Conj in Baltimore, Maryland. Visit http://2017.clojure-conj.org/ for more information and to register.LambdaWorld will be taking place in Cadiz, Spain on October 26th and 27th. For more information visit and to keep updated visit http://www.lambda.world/.CodeMesh is coming up November 8th and 9th in London. For more information, and to keep an eye open for registration, visit http://www.codemesh.io/.Moonconf will be taking place the 9th-11th of November. For more information visit http://moonconf.org/.Clojure SYNC will be taking place in New Orleans on February 15th & 16th of 2018. For more information and to register visit: http://clojuresync.com/.LambdaDays 2018 will be taking place February 22nd and 23rd in Kraków, Poland. For more information, and to register, visit http://www.lambdadays.org/.If you have a conference related to functional programming, contact me, and I will be happy to announce it.AnnouncementsSome of you have asked how you can support Functional Geekery, in that vein,Functional Geekery now has a Patreon Page.If that is one of the ways you would like to show your support, you canfind out more at https://www.patreon.com/fngeekery.Topics [@What Zach has been up to in since Episode 4ErlangElmMostly ErlangWhat put Elm on Zach’s radarPerlGoing from loan calculator to large complicated applicationsCoffeeScriptClojureScriptFriendliness of “you are viewing out of date version” message on package documentationThe Elm ArchitectureInitial hump of Elm looking very different than JavaScriptSchemePrologOnly handful of ways to crash an Elm program vs a JavaScript program“Like superheros, [programming] languages have origin stories”Thinking in types in Elm compared to JavaScript compared to Erlang“Level 1 Elm is ‘Yay! Types!”“Level 2 Elm […] is how can we use the type system as a design tool”QuickCheckCurry-Howard CorrespondenceHaskellIdrisAbility to get runtime errors in HaskellUpcoming Elm in Motion video coursePain Free Web DevelopmentUsing Elm with ErlangWebMachineCowboyParse Transform library in ErlangJavaScript interop via “ports”JSON Decoders and Decoders in ElmProblems around silent errorsMySQL and column value truncation in non Strict ModeHandling JSON decoder parse errorsResult typeHTTP Errors as a type in ElmBeing forced to think about errors and how to handle them“Suddenly a 12-hour debugging session has become 12 seconds of fix a typo”Bootstrap CSS Elm PackageThe Elm compiler as the best pair you could have sitting next to youMaking Impossible States ImpossiblePain Free Web Development YouTube ChannelLeave comments as suggestions for upcoming topicsElm Weekly Training Course_FunctionalG12_ discount code to get it at $12/month instead of $15/monthZach’s goal of helping building up the community around ElmNoRedInkBuilding the business case for using ElmAs always, a giant Thank You goes to David Belcher for the logo design.