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A big problem is that elm has questionable stability as a project. It's mainly one person, and not a lot of mainstream usage. The biggest projects mentioning el
by preommr 7y ago
A big problem is that elm has questionable stability as a project. It's mainly one person, and not a lot of mainstream usage. The biggest projects mentioning elm are ones related to the main programmer.
Typescript on the other hand has had massive growth and has been adopted by a large amount of libraries. Now, web ts/js libraries usually suck but it still speaks to the overall health of the language in a community. Even then, typescript still only has a very small percentage of usage.
Elm is basically a rounding error on some of the surveys I've seen.
Long term support, tooling, etc are often much more important for languages past a threshold. Typescript as a language may not be super exciting. Typescript as a technology is wonderful.
- ronanyeah 7y agoThe tooling and reliability of Elm over the last few years is quite a bit better than TS.
- salimmadjd 7y agoI was an early enthusiast of Elm. Sadly, Elm was never able to build a true core development team outside of Evan. Or at lest it didn’t do it fast enough. Evan is a smart programmer but not a strategic organizer or a communicator. As a result, one of the most exciting and promising approaches to front end development was relegated to a nice-toy project status. If you want to take the risk of building something using Elm’s approach, you’ll do it with Reason. Maybe not 100% as nice as Elm, but you’ll feel confident you’re not risking your code base and company on the whims of one person. I still think Elm is a nice educational language for getting people (and kids) into FP.