Re:Ask HN: What Happened to Elm?
by matsemann on Saturday February 11, 2023 @01:28AM
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The amount of down votes we receive for stating this is quite absurd. I think most people here have never written elm professionally. Then they would've known this is no concern at all. Shrug.
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Yea, exactly. I have written a complete functional game in Elm, with multiplayer over websockets, push notifications and whatnot. It has daily users to this day. I never needed "native" code.
Maybe some decisions were wrong, as I said. Elm is not popular today. But they are also right in some aspect: I don't need another TypeScript (but with weird syntax).
Re:Ask HN: What Happened to Elm?
by JoeyJoJoJr on Saturday February 11, 2023 @03:48PM
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Would you mind sharing a link to you game :)
I’ve written quite a bit of elm professionally and it was an issue for me and was a contributing factor (but not sole factor) to leaving Elm behind.
A viable solution to my problem in professional contexts would have been private packages, which I believe Gren supports, so perhaps Gren would be a solution today, but I’ve moved on. That said, what’s happening with Gren is interesting and I applaud it.