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Road to Elm 1.0

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Re: Road to Elm 1.0

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Post by subarctic »

OhSoHumble wrote: post #2

Oh 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.

Same, I basically assumed the community around it had died out. But i guess the sole maintainer/creator is still around.

I never used elm except for doing a tutorial, but lately I've built a full stack gleam app (using coding agents for the most part, with a lot of control in the beginning on the structure of the code) and have found that process works quite well

Re: Road to Elm 1.0

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Post by bbg2401 »

podnami wrote: post #3

What is the point of actively choosing a web framework in the age of LLMs?

Professional diligence, perhaps? A desire to not be blindly led into the kind of narrow, often first-party stack which is so often proposed by Claude Code?

With all due respect, not everyone is afflicted with the lack of care sufficient to allow them to launch vibe coded apps as low quality as https://podnami.com. Considered technology choices are one such aspect of the practice of caring about what you're building.

Re: Road to Elm 1.0

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Post by pohl »

podnami wrote: post #3

What is the point of actively choosing a web framework in the age of LLMs?

If anything, LLMs make it easier to choose from a broad set of options. The tradeoffs are the same as pre-LLM days, but the learning curve is more favorable.

Re: Road to Elm 1.0

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Post by auslegung »

whichdan wrote: post #4

There'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.

Stability. It works. Frequent breaking changes to core functionality of your tech stack is not a feature, it’s a bug.

Re: Road to Elm 1.0

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Post by hobofan »

OhSoHumble wrote: post #2

Oh 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.

The project was dead. The previous release was 7 years ago, where it stopped because the creator (same as author of this announcement) stopped maintaining it and since the community hasn't progress beyond a BDFL-model that's where it died.

So it was dead, it just now has been resurrected (and AFAIK with a whithered community in the meantime).

Re: Road to Elm 1.0

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Post by pyrale »

> ... and others are more visible features like equatable and hashable types.

I love Elm, and I love the community, but I feel a little gaslit here.

Re: Road to Elm 1.0

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Post by auslegung »

About two years ago I was experimenting with ChatGPT vibecoding a snake game in the browser in elm, because elm is my favorite language. It was rough going and I concluded at the time that LLM‘s might kill elm. Today I use elm in production and LLMs are vastly better at it, and if anything I think LLM‘s might increase elm adoption because it is the ideal language for an LLM right now. It’s a simpler language than most, it’s stable, it has an opinionated architecture built into the language which causes most code bases to be very similar to one another
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