Ask HN: Is Elm Dead? • Hacker News Board

Re: Ask HN: Is Elm Dead?

#21

Post by scumola » Tue, May 24, 2022, 5:49 PM UTC

hereforphone wrote: post #2

I thought this would be about the email client.

Me too. I was going to respond, "I moved to pine like 20 years ago!". LOL

Re: Ask HN: Is Elm Dead?

#22

Post by joecot » Tue, May 24, 2022, 8:46 PM UTC

Fun story. I showed up at my current company, and some frontend dev had convinced everyone that everything should be written in Elm. Their phone client, the frontend website, everything. Then, their lead dev left and so did the frontend dev. Lucky for me, only one part of one page actually made it to production. But this was around 9 months of multiple developers' time just flushed down the toilet. None of it was usable, none of it was worth learning Elm to finish.

Re: Ask HN: Is Elm Dead?

#23

Post by me_me_mu_mu » Wed, May 25, 2022, 3:52 AM UTC

joecot wrote: post #22

Fun story. I showed up at my current company, and some frontend dev had convinced everyone that everything should be written in Elm. Their phone client, the frontend website, everything. Then, their lead dev left and so did the frontend dev. Lucky for me, only one part of one page actually made it to production. But this was around 9 months of multiple developers' time just flushed down the toilet. None of it was usa…

That’s awful. I would fire people like that on the spot if the goal is to ship and grow.