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Comment by scuff3d

1 month ago

Yeah I'm not a front end dev but I do kind of keep track of what's going on in that space. From what I saw it seemed Elm was all but dead. Maybe that's not true, but that was the impression from the outside looking in.

https://iselmdead.info/

I can't believe this is still up tbh. And I can't believe there's still people defending Elm's lack of development

> It’s true that there hasn’t been a new release of the Elm compiler for some time. That’s on purpose: it’s essentially feature-complete.

Last talk I saw by Evan Czaplicki (from the 2025 Scala Days conf) he seemed to be working on some sort of database language https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9OtN4iiFBsQ

  • > And I can't believe there's still people defending Elm's lack of development

    Why? (I'm one such person defending Elm's lack of development)

  • I get the sentiment. He feels like everything he wants is there so it doesn't need much more development. But it still feels off.