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Re:Learning Elm by porting a medium-sized web front end from... by matsemann on Thursday February 29, 2024 @11:24AM (#39551443)
Now you're moving the goalpost. You said it was impossible to use in production. Which is clearly wrong.
Re:Learning Elm by porting a medium-sized web front end from... by ISV_Damocles on Thursday February 29, 2024 @11:31AM (#39551561)
I am just clarifying why I consider it impossible.

Production is not some place you're supposed to cowboy code, but instead have a reasonable expectation that you will be able to continue supporting it for as many years as it operates, and it's impossible for anyone to responsibly use technology with known limitations that have bitten other real engineering teams that they can find zero workarounds for.

If you don't consider that an impossibility for a production environment, then I certainly wouldn't want to work with you on a team with production responsibilities.

Re:Learning Elm by porting a medium-sized web front end from... by matsemann on Thursday February 29, 2024 @12:05PM (#39552080)
Ah, ad hominem. By not agreeing with you, you're basically saying I suck as a dev. Classy.

If that's the level of discussion you want, I'll pass. And perhaps you should reflect on if you yourself is a great team member, if this is how you conduct technical discussions with your colleagues..

Re:Learning Elm by porting a medium-sized web front end from... by ISV_Damocles on Thursday February 29, 2024 @12:25PM (#39552313)
You keep throwing out debate terminology as if that's helping your argument.

You'll note that I didn't get immediately riled up on you calling my original post "FUD" instead of asking why I said what I said. And then when I tried to clarify to you how I consider usage of Elm in production impossible, you again attack me directly instead of trying to discuss anything.

So, perhaps you should reflect if you're a great team member if you consider your opening statement to me to be a "technical discussion" at all? I was just trying to respond reasonably for third parties who are reading this, because I consider you a troll.

Re:Learning Elm by porting a medium-sized web front end from... by matsemann on Thursday February 29, 2024 @10:37PM (#39558277)
You throw out wildly inaccurate statements, and then consider people that push back trolls? I clearly hit a nerve. You lashing out isn't "responding reasonable".
Re:Learning Elm by porting a medium-sized web front end from... by marc136 on Friday March 01, 2024 @04:43PM (#39567149)
Zero workarounds seems overly dramatic, here are a few: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39567011

If you want to rely on them for every possible future requirement or rather want to pick another tool is another question :D

Anyways, just building the compiler without that check was also not that hard.