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I tried using Elm for a side solo. Lots of things to like about it and I learned quite a bit. Played with a lot of toy projects. But I hit a wall when I want
by srhtftw 4y ago
I tried using Elm for a side solo. Lots of things to like about it and I learned quite a bit. Played with a lot of toy projects.
But I hit a wall when I wanted to use some templating and communication modules written in Javascript. Working with things like protocol buffers and externally generated html through ports was very frustrating. As I kept working around Elm's limitations I began feeling this wasn't a language I could use part-time. I either needed to go "all in" or find something that made it easy for me use external Javascript. Looked at giving dillonkearns' Typescript api product a try but his e-commerce site crashed...
So now I'm trying out Yew, Rust and WebAssembly. I miss Elm's compiler but wasm_bindgen is way easier to use than Elm ports.