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Nov 19, 2017 at 17:32
How Elm slays a UI antipattern: https://blog.jenkster.com/2016/06/how-elm-slays-a-ui-antipattern.html Argues for GADTs in web dev, and points out a common issue with async UIs that I can't unsee now.
How Elm Slays a UI Antipattern
How Elm Slays a UI Antipattern
The ProblemThere’s a bug in several places in the OSX Twitter client, and in atleast one place in the Slack client, and in _loads_ of otherapps. Here

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