Gren – an Elm fork • Hacker News Board

I mean the last commit for Elm core was in 2021. Changes require sign off that doesn’t seem likely from who is currently maintaining it. Why not fork it if you are interested in evolving ELM?

Re: Gren – an Elm fork

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Post by hu3 » Sat, Jun 10, 2023, 8:49 PM UTC

ecshafer wrote: post #2

Why is Elm getting forked?

For one, it's been over 2 years without an Elm release. And there are many open bugs untracked in GitHub. https://github.com/elm/compiler/issues

Unrelated to your question but for those curious, here's a comparison between Gren and Elm :

https://gren-lang.org/book/faq.html#what-are-the-differences...

Re: Gren – an Elm fork

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Post by hu3 » Sat, Jun 10, 2023, 8:50 PM UTC

Fitzero wrote: post #3

Obligatory https://iselmdead.info/

We need a https://seriously-iselmdead.info

Re: Gren – an Elm fork

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Post by G4BB3R » Sat, Jun 10, 2023, 8:53 PM UTC

It is not a fork, it started as fork to save time, but targets/focus on node and will diverge from Elm.

Re: Gren – an Elm fork

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Post by riwsky » Sat, Jun 10, 2023, 8:53 PM UTC

hu3 wrote: post #6

Fitzero wrote: post #3

Obligatory https://iselmdead.info/

We need a https://seriously-iselmdead.info

isiselmdead.infodead.info

Re: Gren – an Elm fork

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Post by GaggiX » Sat, Jun 10, 2023, 8:53 PM UTC

Fitzero wrote: post #3

Obligatory https://iselmdead.info/

I guess this site is also dead.

Re: Gren – an Elm fork

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Post by josephcsible » Sat, Jun 10, 2023, 8:55 PM UTC

Did they get rid of the whitelist of projects allowed to use native code (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22821447, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17842400, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16510267)?