As a corollary to what shados was saying, now that 0.17 is out the elm-lang organization will make a library to cover every single part of the web platform [0],

As a corollary to what shados was saying, now that 0.17 is out the elm-lang organization will make a library to cover every single part of the web platform [0], at which point you will never need to. [0] https://platform.html5.org/ https://platform.html5.org/