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I use Elm and am quite happy with it, despite the project being dead (and Evans horrible cult of personality). I am also keeping on eye on Gren as a replacement: https://gren-lang.org/
The year in this link is very important. In the following year, the Elm team decided to not pay attention to the maxim "perfect is the enemy of good" and crippled their FFI story, making it impossible to actually use the language in production[1]. I would recommend to steer clear of a language that makes these sorts of decisions -- that certain features are off-limits to the regular developer because they can't be tr…
The year in this link is very important. In the following year, the Elm team decided to not pay attention to the maxim "perfect is the enemy of good" and crippled their FFI story, making it impossible to actually use the language in production[1]. I would recommend to steer clear of a language that makes these sorts of decisions -- that certain features are off-limits to the regular developer because they can't be tr…
The year in this link is very important. In the following year, the Elm team decided to not pay attention to the maxim "perfect is the enemy of good" and crippled their FFI story, making it impossible to actually use the language in production[1]. I would recommend to steer clear of a language that makes these sorts of decisions -- that certain features are off-limits to the regular developer because they can't be tr…
It's incredible that on just about every piece I've ever read about Elm since they made that decision, this has been the first, second, and third comment. Wanting to try Elm for myself, I disregarded this advice, and.... immediately ran into the exact same problem! I've never seen such a promising project so conclusively killed by pure developer pigheadedness. And, amazingly, they've never backed down at all. They do…
This may not apply to Elm. But I imagine it can feel easier and more rewarding to manage a community that's more like a cult than a typical free-for-all open source project.
I use Elm and am quite happy with it, despite the project being dead (and Evans horrible cult of personality). I am also keeping on eye on Gren as a replacement: https://gren-lang.org/
Gren took the worst thing about Elm and made it even worse: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36275171
The year in this link is very important. In the following year, the Elm team decided to not pay attention to the maxim "perfect is the enemy of good" and crippled their FFI story, making it impossible to actually use the language in production[1]. I would recommend to steer clear of a language that makes these sorts of decisions -- that certain features are off-limits to the regular developer because they can't be tr…
Reason is a lovely, OCaml-esque language in the same functional vein, but I would say Gren feels like a great spiritual successor to Elm. https://gren-lang.org/
The year in this link is very important. In the following year, the Elm team decided to not pay attention to the maxim "perfect is the enemy of good" and crippled their FFI story, making it impossible to actually use the language in production[1]. I would recommend to steer clear of a language that makes these sorts of decisions -- that certain features are off-limits to the regular developer because they can't be tr…
Reason is a lovely, OCaml-esque language in the same functional vein, but I would say Gren feels like a great spiritual successor to Elm. https://gren-lang.org/
https://github.com/Zokka-Dev/zokka-compiler
edit: there's also Roc, https://www.roc-lang.org/, a language started by Richard Feldman who I believe was a former elm core team member. I think Roc aims to accomplish different things than elm, but definitely feels like a spiritual successor
The year in this link is very important. In the following year, the Elm team decided to not pay attention to the maxim "perfect is the enemy of good" and crippled their FFI story, making it impossible to actually use the language in production[1]. I would recommend to steer clear of a language that makes these sorts of decisions -- that certain features are off-limits to the regular developer because they can't be tr…
Just FUD. I've been on a big team writing a webapp used by hundreds of thousands each day. While it's not necessarily my own first choice, it was great and the least error prone piece of software I've written in my career.
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Reason is a lovely, OCaml-esque language in the same functional vein, but I would say Gren feels like a great spiritual successor to Elm. https://gren-lang.org/
Gren is a fork, not a spiritual successor. And not only did it not fix that problem, it made it worse: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36275171