Ask HN: Are you using Elm? is the development active?

Re:Ask HN: Are you using Elm? is the development active? by mjaniczek on Tuesday April 03, 2018 @06:02AM (#16743242)

Are you asking about elm-ui, or about Elm the language?

Elm libraries (like elm-ui) are generally very stable (thanks to the language guarantees), so the fact that it was last updated at May 2017 isn't necessarily bad. In fact most of the libraries, when they're published, they're done. (Sans occasional bugfix)

I don't know about this particular one though, it seems the author is focused on non-Elm things now: https://www.mint-lang.com/

Elm the language is active, alive, used in production, the community grows, it seems that the alpha release of v0.19 will drop any moment... Things are looking pretty good!

(PS: The Elm slack - http://elmlang.herokuapp.com/ - is probably better place to ask Elm-using-people stuff :) )

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Re:Ask HN: Are you using Elm? is the development active? by tomerbd on Wednesday April 04, 2018 @01:02AM (#16752096)

ok cool, i'm looking at elm-ui and I don't see they have for example: "alert" like: https://getbootstrap.com/docs/4.0/components/alerts/ . What do elm users who use elm do for alerts? I like the idea that elm is encapsulated and opinionated, i'm just trying to find my way around it and to understand how to work with it, any idea what users who use elm-ui package do for alerts? do they need it? use another component? external css? elm-bootstrap?

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Re:Ask HN: Are you using Elm? is the development active? by mjaniczek on Wednesday April 04, 2018 @04:22AM (#16752987)

Not sure. Ask around (on the Slack) though! I'd use external CSS.

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Re:Ask HN: Are you using Elm? is the development active? by juhatl on Tuesday April 03, 2018 @11:47AM (#16745802)

> it seems that the alpha release of v0.19 will drop any moment...

Could you please elaborate on this a bit? What makes you believe that the 0.19 alpha release is just around the corner?

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Re:Ask HN: Are you using Elm? is the development active? by mjaniczek on Tuesday April 03, 2018 @03:42PM (#16748382)

It's not because of something Evan said, it's just a hunch based on looking at the compiler commits.

Recent changes to [elm-compiler](https://github.com/elm-lang/elm-compiler) are of cosmetic character, so probably not many blockers left to do before the alpha. Some docs might need rewriting (https://github.com/elm-lang/elm-compiler) but that might come between alpha and beta?

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