Elm Test Distributions

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by todsacerdoti • 1 year ago

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tybug• 1 year ago

Nice! "testing your test code" is particularly important when dealing with PBT distributions, especially when your generator gets more complicated.

Tyche [0] is another cool tool for addressing the same problem, visualizing the PBT distribution but not making assertions about it.

[0] https://github.com/tyche-pbt/tyche-extension

ibizaman• 1 year ago

That’s really cool. I learned to love (stateful) property testing through a project at work to migrate drivers for MongoDB. https://blog.tiserbox.com/posts/2024-02-27-stateful-property...

jiehong• 1 year ago

How Elm doing? Still v0.19.1 at first glance.

Anybody has an accurate view of the current status?

ch4s34• 1 year ago

Basically dead. The core hasn’t been touched publicly since 2022, and the package ecosystem is closed. People will argue that it’s still usable but the fork ROC has more traction.

https://www.roc-lang.org/

terminatornet• 1 year ago

roc isn't a fork of elm, it's more inspired by the language and run by a former elm core team member.

frfl• 1 year ago

The actual fork is https://gren-lang.org/

k_bx2• 1 year ago

Isn't ROC back-end language?

tasuki3• 1 year ago

You could say "dead", or you could say it's done, complete.

I'm a backend developer by trade. Because of Elm, I take every opportunity to do frontend. Elm made me love frontend.

Yes, there are things that are missing. Web sockets? Tough luck, it's ports! Or maybe you don't need web sockets.

I'd take Elm over the alternatives (cough React cough) anytime without hesitation.

jweir• 1 year ago

There is the Lamdera compiler

https://github.com/lamdera/compiler

We don’t use it though. Elm 0.19.1 just works. New packages and plenty of support. It’s difficult to comprehend in a world of endless updates that maybe something doesn’t need updates.

tasuki3• 1 year ago

I don't have an accurate view, but I understand Evan is up to something. He likes to take his time.

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