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Re:Learning Elm by porting a medium-sized web front end from... by tasuki on Friday March 01, 2024 @02:28AM (#39559463)
The "no updates for past five years" is my favourite feature of Elm.

I have some five or so projects written in Elm and enjoy every time I don't have to upgrade them because no new version was released!

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Re:Learning Elm by porting a medium-sized web front end from... by marc136 on Friday March 01, 2024 @04:52PM (#39567228)
That's high on my list, too.

The only fear I have is that I won't be able to install packages that no longer exist when I switching machines.

But by running

  ELM_HOME="$PWD/deps" elm make ...
I can get those downloaded into the directories and add them to the VCS.
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