Road to Elm 1.0
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Road to Elm 1.0
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Re: Road to Elm 1.0
#2Oh my God, I had no idea this project was still alive. I don't mean to throw any shade but I had assumed that the lid was on this turkey.
Re: Road to Elm 1.0
#3What is the point of actively choosing a web framework in the age of LLMs?
Re: Road to Elm 1.0
#4There's a lot to love about Elm, and I've written quite a bit of production code with it starting around 0.18.0. But in 2026 I'm not sure why a company would newly choose a language that hasn't otherwise been updated in nearly 7 years.
Re: Road to Elm 1.0
#5What is the point of actively choosing a web framework in the age of LLMs?
The point is the same as in pre-LLM.
Re: Road to Elm 1.0
#6used elm between 2016-17.
it taught me a lot of things - such as simplicity. when I ended up switching to react - redux was easy to pick up cz of elm.
sadly the ecosystem never grew. but oh man elm is nice & the apps were performant.
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#7love it see it :)
Re: Road to Elm 1.0
#8Oh my God, I had no idea this project was still alive. I don't mean to throw any shade but I had assumed that the lid was on this turkey.
I know right. I’m glad DSLs have fallen out of fashion. Just use the platform.
Re: Road to Elm 1.0
#9What is the point of actively choosing a web framework in the age of LLMs?
Stronger foundation (as to mean better tested), less accidental complexity of reinventing everything, transferability of knowledge, easier onboarding and review of changes.
Your argument is a mirror of the snark question "why don't LLMs write in assembly?" for those not looking at the output at all.
Re: Road to Elm 1.0
#10I wrote a thing in 2023 about why I'm still using Elm:
It's 2026, and I'm still using Elm for all the same reasons :)
As an added bonus, Claude seems to play very very nicely with Elm: