alt Hacker NewsAs a mostly back end dev Elm looked really nice but all the conflict with the creator and then the lack of compiler releases made me shy away a bit.
I have bumped into "the Elm architecture" in other projects though and it was nice.
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Yeah I'm not a front end dev but I do kind of keep track of what's going on in that space. From what I saw it seemed Elm was all but dead. Maybe that's not true, but that was the impression from the outside looking in.
Not many people use elm directly but it has influenced the design of so many frameworks and libraries.
Right now I’m toying with the idea of building a GNOME application in rust, and the framework I’m using is relm4 which provides elm like abstractions over gtk-rs.
Previously I’ve built web applications with F# and elmish, which again provides elm like abstractions for building F# applications.
> all the conflict with the creator
Just so no one misunderstands this. The creator (Evan) didn't get into, or start, any drama himself that I ever noticed. I'd argue he's a very chill and nice dude.
I've been on the edges of the community for probably a decade now (lurker), and all of the drama came from other people who simply didn't like the BDFL and slow releases strategy.