I guess what I'm saying is that the community treats Evan Czaplicki like some sort of language design god who has carefully and artisinally crafted a revolutionary new language with no runtime errors(!!!!) when in reality it's just Haskell with all the powerful features stripped out.

I really do like the paradigm of unidirectional data binding to the UI and the message system, but Elm The Language itself is basically the Go of functional programming; when you point this out on the subreddit or to a fan, you'll get banned (I have) or condescend to in the most obnoxious way, with plenty of the word "folks" peppered in.