That's pretty unfair given the fact that it's 0.17. Before this release, server side rendering was possible but super weird. This release includes most (all?)

That's pretty unfair given the fact that it's 0.17. Before this release, server side rendering was possible but super weird. This release includes most (all?) of the big changes necessary to make the server side rendering story great. This is already basically done but not yet release ready. Please don't reject something based on its current (admittedly not 1.0!) state based on assumptions about its future! Evan and co. are in fact extremely smart and by no means does anyone consider Elm "done." I'd suggest playing with the language itself. That's the important part - not the state of the current runtime.