Elm Town 42 – It's Just Darth Vader

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