alt Hacker NewsI’ve been using Elm professionally at a very profitable, lean company the last two years. (Didn’t know it coming in, but had enough React, Redux, and other experience to learn quickly.) The Elm community would call this a feature. How much React code you wrote 6-8 years ago will work perfectly and identically with today’s React toolchain?
It’s a whole different set of values. Good React code in 2026 looks like any compiling Elm code since 2016.
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Oh yeah, no shade against the language itself. I had fun learning it and using it for some toy development years ago - and the TEA still exists in multiple library implementations. Just wild to see the creator of the language emerge from the fog like that.
> How much React code you wrote 6-8 years ago will work perfectly and identically with today’s React toolchain?
Today's Elm toolchain is the Elm toolchain of 6 years ago!
Any code you wrote on a React version from 6 years ago will still work the same on that React version today. Let's make that a fair comparison.
I get that some people like stability, but that is quite different from going without updates for 6+ years.