The latest articles on DEV Community by benjamonnguyen (@benjamonnguyen). https://dev.to/benjamonnguyen https://media2.dev.to/dynamic/image/width=90,height=90,fit=cover,gravity=auto,format=auto/https:%2F%2Fdev-to-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fuploads%2Fuser%2Fprofile_image%2F788777%2F5fdfecd3-9099-49fd-b449-183f6ea2f089.png https://dev.to/benjamonnguyen en benjamonnguyen Sun, 09 Jan 2022 08:32:02 +0000 https://dev.to/benjamonnguyen/elm-ushering-in-a-new-era-of-web-development-295d https://dev.to/benjamonnguyen/elm-ushering-in-a-new-era-of-web-development-295d <p>_This article may very well read as yet another critique of Javascript no one asked for, but seeing as Javascript == web dev, I just wanted to put my thoughts out there on why Elm is a herald of great things to come… _ </p> <p>I am partial to languages that adhere to a “pythonic philosophy”. In other words, the community strives toward a standard way of doing things. </p> <p>Throughout its long tenure, Javascript has become an overwhelming and unwieldy beast. Mastery over the multi-headed chimera requires one to wade through the accumulated clunk and navigate a dense ecosystem. It has become heavily reliant on an infinitely growing list of external tools, libraries and frameworks. </p> <p>Of course all these points lend to Javascript’s flexibility and range. It is a wholly capable language but at the critical cost of compromise to its clarity of practice. It is very much a personal preference, but if you give me 3 ways of doing something, 2 of those ways are wrong. When multiple patterns exist, they tend to get in each other’s way and lead to incoherence in the codebase. </p> <p>All of this is to say I am very excited to see the future of web app languages like Elm that are adding much needed modernization and streamlining to frontend development. </p> elm javascript pythonic