1. By chance, after a long and tiring typescript project, I looked for something else. 2. No, my first functional language was clojure script, which I tried be

1. By chance, after a long and tiring typescript project, I looked for something else. 2. No, my first functional language was clojure script, which I tried before elm, I liked the concept but just couldn't bare the syntax. 3. Phoenix elixir, I do maintain it. (in fact I'm more of a backend programmer) 4. Now I work mostly with style-element (the alpha, called stylish elephant) which is the only "framework like" library I use. Otherwise I use different utility libraries for date, color manipulation (hsluv which I wrote the elm implementation), data structure manipulation (many in elm-community, like list.extra)... I use way less libraries that I would with JS, and that's good. 5. No.