Re:Why I’m Leaving Elm
by Keats on Thursday April 09, 2020 @10:27AM
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The last time I looked at Elm was about ~4 years and this attitude was already showing. We hesitated building our business front-end in Elm at the time and had a general bad feeling about its future considering the various interactions we had seen. Seeing this article makes me pretty glad I didn't invest time in Elm.
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Re:Why I’m Leaving Elm
by lazersharkman on Thursday April 09, 2020 @10:50AM
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Same. We founded on Haskell but had some need to more front-end oriented code. Can say Elm was never considered because I was hearing this weird stuff back in 2016--not to mention it would just make hiring even harder. Can't trust tooling that will be capricious.
What did you settle on, considering you were otherwise Haskell focused?
Re:Why I’m Leaving Elm
by lazersharkman on Thursday April 09, 2020 @02:53PM
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Typescript. We try not to be type/pl theory fanatics. Choose your tools well. Haskell is great since the core of our product is an interpreter/compiler with multiple stages. But I don't wanna use it everywhere.
Personally I'd be using JS (or TS) + jQuery. Almost no dependencies, but a lot more manual. No one would be happy on the team if we did this of course. And it can be impractical
Re:Why I’m Leaving Elm
by cashsterling on Thursday April 09, 2020 @03:11PM
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Same.. was looking at make machine control system web HMI in Elm. After some investigation into Elm's background and development team... saw too many warning signs.