My working opinion of Elm is that it's a very promising language hamstrung by poor governance and crippled by a shockingly toxic community. ...and that Reddit

My working opinion of Elm is that it's a very promising language hamstrung by poor governance and crippled by a shockingly toxic community. ...and that Reddit threat certainly doesn't give me any reason to change my mind on any of those points. :) Edit: I should note, I sympathise with the situation the Elm project is in. The extremely limited resources they have for development mean they have to make some compromises, and I'm not sure they've even made the wrong ones, given their goal. If they waited until a 1.0 version before trying to get adoption the project would lose relevance, so they have to get people to use an unstable beta in production. If they didn't make breaking changes to enforce a vision on the project, you'd end up with a ugly soup like PHP. If they devoted significant time to dealing with the community, they might not get anything done. Golang has charted a similar course but has had way more resources (and still has made a number of people angry); Rust has kept people happier, but in exchange for a much more community-driven vision, and not without cost in terms of false starts and dropped features. Developing a new language as anything more than an exercise is very hard!