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Re:Ask HN: What Happened to Elm? by satvikpendem on Friday February 10, 2023 @04:59PM (#34746525)
It won user market-share which is what OP's post is about. TS is not "dead" like Elm is, quite the opposite.
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Re:Ask HN: What Happened to Elm? by jupp0r on Friday February 10, 2023 @05:45PM (#34747036)
They were never competing with each other and serve completely different use cases.
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Re:Ask HN: What Happened to Elm? by tomrod on Friday February 10, 2023 @06:01PM (#34747203)
Like what?
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Re:Ask HN: What Happened to Elm? by jupp0r on Saturday February 11, 2023 @09:25AM (#34752522)
One is an imperative gradual opt-in superset of JavaScript, the other is a strictly typed functional programming language with a fairly opinionated runtime.
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Re:Ask HN: What Happened to Elm? by tomrod on Saturday February 11, 2023 @02:25PM (#34755422)
This defines what they are, but not what use cases they serve. From what I see of the comments and understanding of both TS and Elm, they have use case overlaps.
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Re:Ask HN: What Happened to Elm? by jupp0r on Saturday February 11, 2023 @10:08PM (#34759288)
A hammer and an axe have use case overlaps too. Just because you can build front end apps with both doesn't mean that they serve similar use cases. Elm is more of a framework.
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Re:Ask HN: What Happened to Elm? by satvikpendem on Friday February 10, 2023 @07:23PM (#34748017)
Are both not used for frontend engineering by compiling to Javascript?
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