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Re:Road to Elm 1.0 by sheept on Monday July 06, 2026 @12:19PM (#48806768)
In Elm 0.19, they removed the ability for third party packages to provide native bindings for JavaScript APIs that the language or its official packages didn't yet support.[0] The only alternative proposed by Evan is to use ports, which are about as ergonomic as calling a function in a web worker.

[0]: https://discourse.elm-lang.org/t/native-code-in-0-19/826

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Re:Road to Elm 1.0 by 1-more on Monday July 06, 2026 @04:11PM (#48809839)
there is also web components (best way to do a "copy this to clipboard" button in my experience) and secret back door synchronous FFI through overloading the Object prototype. In all cases the communication is gated through decoders/encoders that can fail; you can only pass serialized data across the boundary from JS to Elm.
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