Elm is a functional programming language designed designed to compile to JavaScript. It has made something of a name for itself with high quality compiler error messages and excellent documentation.
One thing you may encounter in your initial reading of example applications is
an entity called beginnerProgram, for example:
import Html exposing (beginnerProgram, div, button, text)
import Html.Events exposing (onClick)
main =
beginnerProgram { model = 0, view = view, update = update }
It may be the peculiarity of how it is named, but beginnerProgram seems to confuse
programmers new to Elm’s syntax as to what it is – a function imported from the Html
package.
Think of it as a convenience method for defining a root Program without having
to define some of the more sophisticated elements Elm affords.
beginnerProgram only requires defining a model, view, and update function,
the kernel of any application using the Elm architecture.