Elm vs Objective-C

Overview

Objective-C

Stacks13.3K

Followers6.5K

Votes490

Elm

Stacks758

Followers744

Votes319

Elm vs Objective-C: What are the differences?

Elm: A type inferred, functional reactive language that compiles to HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. Writing HTML apps is super easy with elm-lang/html. Not only does it render extremely fast, it also quietly guides you towards well-architected code; Objective-C: The primary programming language you use when writing software for OS X and iOS. Objective-C is a superset of the C programming language and provides object-oriented capabilities and a dynamic runtime. Objective-C inherits the syntax, primitive types, and flow control statements of C and adds syntax for defining classes and methods. It also adds language-level support for object graph management and object literals while providing dynamic typing and binding, deferring many responsibilities until runtime.

Elm and Objective-C belong to "Languages" category of the tech stack.

"Code stays clean" is the primary reason why developers consider Elm over the competitors, whereas "Ios" was stated as the key factor in picking Objective-C.

Elm is an open source tool with 5.3K GitHub stars and 424 GitHub forks. Here's a link to Elm's open source repository on GitHub.

Uber Technologies, Instagram, and Pinterest are some of the popular companies that use Objective-C, whereas Elm is used by NoRedInk, Brilliant, and RolePoint. Objective-C has a broader approval, being mentioned in 851 company stacks & 363 developers stacks; compared to Elm, which is listed in 27 company stacks and 35 developer stacks.

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Advice on Objective-C, Elm

Noel

Founder, CEO, CTO at NoFilter

Jun 17, 2020

Decided

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Detailed Comparison

Objective-C	Elm
Objective-C is a superset of the C programming language and provides object-oriented capabilities and a dynamic runtime. Objective-C inherits the syntax, primitive types, and flow control statements of C and adds syntax for defining classes and methods. It also adds language-level support for object graph management and object literals while providing dynamic typing and binding, deferring many responsibilities until runtime.	Writing HTML apps is super easy with elm-lang/html. Not only does it render extremely fast, it also quietly guides you towards well-architected code.
-	No Runtime Exceptions; Fearless refactoring; Understand anyone's code; Fast and friendly feedback; Enforced Semantic Versioning; Small Assets
Statistics
Stacks 13.3K	Stacks 758
Followers 6.5K	Followers 744
Votes 490	Votes 319
Pros & Cons
Pros 212 Ios 115 Xcode 62 Backed by apple 47 Osx 40 Interface builder Cons 1 UNREADABLE	Pros 45 Code stays clean 44 Great type system 40 No Runtime Exceptions 33 Fun 28 Easy to understand Cons 3 No typeclasses -> repitition (i.e. map has 130versions) 2 JS interoperability a bit more involved 2 JS interop can not be async 1 Backwards compability breaks between releases 1 More code is required

What are some alternatives to Objective-C, Elm?

JavaScript

JavaScript is most known as the scripting language for Web pages, but used in many non-browser environments as well such as node.js or Apache CouchDB. It is a prototype-based, multi-paradigm scripting language that is dynamic,and supports object-oriented, imperative, and functional programming styles.

Python

Python is a general purpose programming language created by Guido Van Rossum. Python is most praised for its elegant syntax and readable code, if you are just beginning your programming career python suits you best.

PHP

Fast, flexible and pragmatic, PHP powers everything from your blog to the most popular websites in the world.

Ruby

Ruby is a language of careful balance. Its creator, Yukihiro “Matz” Matsumoto, blended parts of his favorite languages (Perl, Smalltalk, Eiffel, Ada, and Lisp) to form a new language that balanced functional programming with imperative programming.

Java

Java is a programming language and computing platform first released by Sun Microsystems in 1995. There are lots of applications and websites that will not work unless you have Java installed, and more are created every day. Java is fast, secure, and reliable. From laptops to datacenters, game consoles to scientific supercomputers, cell phones to the Internet, Java is everywhere!

Golang

Go is expressive, concise, clean, and efficient. Its concurrency mechanisms make it easy to write programs that get the most out of multicore and networked machines, while its novel type system enables flexible and modular program construction. Go compiles quickly to machine code yet has the convenience of garbage collection and the power of run-time reflection. It's a fast, statically typed, compiled language that feels like a dynamically typed, interpreted language.

HTML5

HTML5 is a core technology markup language of the Internet used for structuring and presenting content for the World Wide Web. As of October 2014 this is the final and complete fifth revision of the HTML standard of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C). The previous version, HTML 4, was standardised in 1997.

C#

C# (pronounced "See Sharp") is a simple, modern, object-oriented, and type-safe programming language. C# has its roots in the C family of languages and will be immediately familiar to C, C++, Java, and JavaScript programmers.

Meteor

A Meteor application is a mix of JavaScript that runs inside a client web browser, JavaScript that runs on the Meteor server inside a Node.js container, and all the supporting HTML fragments, CSS rules, and static assets.

Scala

Scala is an acronym for “Scalable Language”. This means that Scala grows with you. You can play with it by typing one-line expressions and observing the results. But you can also rely on it for large mission critical systems, as many companies, including Twitter, LinkedIn, or Intel do. To some, Scala feels like a scripting language. Its syntax is concise and low ceremony; its types get out of the way because the compiler can infer them.

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Elm vs Objective-C: What are the differences?

Elm and Objective-C belong to "Languages" category of the tech stack.

"Code stays clean" is the primary reason why developers consider Elm over the competitors, whereas "Ios" was stated as the key factor in picking Objective-C.

Elm is an open source tool with 5.3K GitHub stars and 424 GitHub forks. Here's a link to Elm's open source repository on GitHub.