the main idea behind the language (TEA, for "the elm architecture") has caught on pretty well though, and can be found in a number of other frameworks.
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#12I don’t know anything about using Elm in practice but I’ve been curating a newsletter[1] for front-end developers for almost 10 years now. I often share new scripts, plugins, and tools related to different JavaScript libraries. Over 450 issues later, I think I’ve only shared an Elm-related tool around 4 times. I don’t think Elm is dead, but it’s certainly not something I see come across the literally hundreds of sources I scour every month when curating the newsletter content.
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#13I'm convinced that "managed effects" in Elm are the wave of the future...
but I can't find any reasonable explanation of what they are
Yeah, I know... a weird place to be
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#14It’s been dead for years, which is a shame because it was downright the most enjoyable front-end framework/language I had ever worked with. Sure, there’s nothing stopping you from picking it up and writing an app with it right now, but you’re doing so knowing that the language will likely never have future updates going forward.
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#15mint-lang is inspired by Elm and has a much friendlier/open community. Not involved (though I've contributed) - just a fan.
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#16Stopped development does not mean it's dead. There are few Elm jobs posted on slack every month.
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#17IIRC the main problem of Elm that it was one man show and the author was really restrictive about allowing anyone else contribute to the core. At least that's when I lost interest. Not sure what happened between then and now. It was one of these risky "niche squared" bets so maybe that's why it never took off.
Sounds like this vim needs a neovim
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#18See this "recent" status update: https://discourse.elm-lang.org/t/status-update-3-nov-2021/78...
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#19it is very much alive. it’s lack of churn is a feature not a bug.
But then it might be time do declare it stable.
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#20We'd been using it until 2015 more or less. Since then we pass to TS/React and later to Phoenix/Liveview. Elm simply couldn't satisfy our functional demands. Our IT lead considered to be... dated.