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Very interesting project. I notice the site itself is written in Elm; it would be great if we could see the source code for the site, any chance of adding some of it to the examples section?

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Thank you! And yes, that has been a really good way to test the language out. I don't want to add it to the examples because I use some internal-only functions to make it work nicely. It's also not terribly instructive. You can see it at (http://elm-lang.org/edit/Elm.elm) if you really want. Due to some implementation issues with Element sizing and some Element abstractions, there is some suboptimal stuff in there, but I am working on it. It should be shorter and prettier when the language and implementation gets more mature.

For instance, I am really unhappy with padding/margin, so that almost certainly come out. I have a nicer abstraction in mind that should solve HTML's problems with padding/margins/positioning. I can't say it will happen soon, but it's on the way.

P.S. If you want to look at other files, adding 'edit' to an Elm file gives you the source right now. http://elm-lang.org/edit/...

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