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If I have time off to learn a new language in order to get a new Job, would Elm be a good choice? I wonder if picking a niche language would give me an advantage or there would be too few jobs.
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T.b.h. this is the reason why I will probably stay messing around with either PureScript or ReasonML but stay away from Elm.
Why exactly? Elm 0.19 is out on August 2018, and the only thing that's expected is 0.19.1 which barely changes anything (doesn't break any api). Seems like 0.19 is quite settled at this point.
For anyone new trying to get into Elm (as a language/tool), I would look elsewhere. ReasonML, PureScript, TypeScipt, etc are all better featured solutions. Having said that, the article is well written and thorough for anyone wanting to take a look into Elm. But there are massive problems with Elm itself which make it impossible to consider seriously. I have and still do use Elm in production, and went through the ni…
> Evan holds the naive view that everything can be rewritten in pure Elm and there's no reason not to. An overwhelmingly common use-case is 3rd party services or tracking libraries where it's impossible to re-implement; these apparently don't exist. He quite loudly holds the opposite view: instead of thinking you need to port everything to Elm (very common urge for newcomers), keep it in JS and use it over a port.
I like Elm as a language, but the community is extremely toxic, and it's not production-ready yet (version < 1.0, one-person project). Too bad, because it's a great project.
I like Elm as a language, but the community is extremely toxic, and it's not production-ready yet (version < 1.0, one-person project). Too bad, because it's a great project.
I like Elm as a language, but the community is extremely toxic, and it's not production-ready yet (version < 1.0, one-person project). Too bad, because it's a great project.
I am a back-end developer, and I don't know front-end. I also know very little of functional programming. Elm is the only language that I like writing, and where I don't feel in a state of frustration when I write. It might have a lot of limitations, bu tit makes me happy. Given that our job is basically to be in a constant state of half broken code, this makes me a huge fan of the language.
our job is basically to be in a constant state of half broken code
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T.b.h. this is the reason why I will probably stay messing around with either PureScript or ReasonML but stay away from Elm.
Yeah, I balked at changing my apps to be 0.19 compatible. Now I'm kind of just "getting along" with 0.18 until I can do more of my front end work in Phoenix LiveView.
I like Elm as a language, but the community is extremely toxic, and it's not production-ready yet (version < 1.0, one-person project). Too bad, because it's a great project.