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by kriro 3670 days ago
The title is unfortunate. At first I though...wait why are they discontinuing Elm, what did I miss.

I've never written anything in Elm but that short post makes me want to try it. Sounds like a pretty great feature of a language to have easy to follow error messages you can readily pick up. This also made me chuckle

"""I thought Elm was a pure, functional language, but this is one hell of a side effect."""

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The error messages in Elm really are outstanding. I've never used a language that has such clear, concise, and human-friendly error messages. It's a high water mark, and I hope other programming languages are inspired to try to equal what Elm has accomplished.
I literally had to read it 5 times before realizing it's not a dismissal of Elm.