Comment by cyberpunk
5 months ago
Honest question -- not trying to be offensive, but what are you using elm for? Everywhere I've encountered it it's some legacy system that no one has cared to migrate yet and it's a complete dumpster fire.
You spend about three days trying to get it to build then say fuck it and rewrite it.
At least, that's the story of the last (and only) three times I've seen elm code in the wild.
I'm not really a frontend developer. I'm using Elm for toy projects, in fact I did one recently.[0] Elm is my favourite language!
> You spend about three days trying to get it to build then say fuck it and rewrite it.
What are the problems you encounter? I can't quite imagine in what way an Elm project could be hard to build! (Also not trying to be offensive, but I almost don't believe you!)
And into which language do you rewrite those "dumpster fire" Elm codebases?
[0] https://github.com/tasuki/iso-maze
typescript usually, the elm frontends tend to be in some abandoned repo which hasn't had a ci run in like 2 years and which instantly fail on missing deps or security controls etc.
Yes, right, I forgot, this also happened to me once: someone deleted their repo for an Elm library. It was salvageable through whatever archive and publishing my own copy.
It happens less often in Elm than in JavaScript though! I'll take "abandoned for two years" Elm project over "abandoned for two years" typescript project anytime!
The problem, in your case, was not really Elm.