Comment by culi

1 month ago

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)

  • From the outside the project honestly does look kind of dead, what's your take on the development and community?

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.