Elm Town

Elm Town 42 – It's Just Darth Vader

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Erkal Selman shares the story behind Kite, a web application for drawing and exploring directed graphs written entirely in Elm.

Thank you to our sponsors, Ellie, Culture Amp and Joel Clermont.

Special thanks to Xavier Ho (@Xavier_Ho) for editing and production of this episode!

Recording date: 25 January 2019

Guests
  • Erkal Selman (@AzizErkalSelman)
    • Show Notes

    00:00:00 Introduction

    00:01:34 Guest intro

    • Kite
    • Thread: An Interactive Visualization Tool for Graph Theory

      • 00:04:59 Graph theory

      00:07:08 Origins of Kite

      00:10:13 Elm benefits

      00:12:15 Inspirations

      • Talk: The Life of a File, Evan Czaplicki
      • Talk: Make Data Structures, Richard Feldman

        • 00:13:24 D3.js via JavaScript interop

        00:18:42 Replacing D3.js with elm-visualisation

        00:20:37 It's Darth Vader!!!

        00:21:05 Ian MacKenzie's elm-geometry

        • Talk: Now You're Thinking in Functions, Ian Mackenzie

          • 00:23:17 Matthew Griffith's elm-ui

          00:25:41 Performance bottlenecks

          00:27:09 Importing Elm dependency graphs

          • Code: Support for private repos

            • 00:29:44 Multiple centers of gravity

            00:30:54 Planned features, welcomed contributions

            00:34:20 Erkal wants a job!

            00:35:03 Outro and the Sublime Text Editor Integration

            • Package: Elm Language Support for Sublime Text
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