Re:Do we need to move away from Elm?
by dennisdamenace on Saturday March 03, 2018 @08:09PM
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You are wrong. Anyone can publish a package for Elm - without approval.
What you can’t publish is a package with JavaScript in it. And, if you understand Elm, this makes sense.
Elm has no runtime errors - which means any JS has to be perfectly designed. Elm is not to be bound to just a JavaScript platform. Elm has ports for interior.
As for bug fixes - there appear to be some cases where there are bugs, but I have never come across any. The langauge just works.
The slow pace of releases is a business adavatage - we don’t need to be upgrading every N months.
The last upgrade had tools to automate almost the entire process.
Anyway. Would you wager that Elm will fail? I will put up $1000 to your $9000.
It's quite enjoyable to watch, but obviously it's not scalable or sustainable in the general case.
> Elm's management has left me with the impression of a really smart, well-intentioned hellscape.
That seems fair, yes.
My personal view is that there's about a 90% chance the project will collapse under its own weight before it ever hits a release and becomes a normal project, but there's a 10% chance it'll (one day) migrate into a real language (with a real governance model, an actual team working on it, bugfixes being shipped, etc.).