[tacos]

This is the perfect example of the content-free HN posts that are topping the charts lately. It contains not a single example of a "helpful error message." Nor a single line of code from the language in question. Just a 173 word free-verse poem with some feel-good handwaving.

If this were a post about soap (the salt, not the protocol) we'd downvote the post as obvious content-free shilling. But because it's some obscure language that doesn't even make the top 100 TIOBE language list, here we are, upvoting someone we've never heard of, celebrating his opinion of awesome compiler error messages that none of us has ever seen, for a language that nobody uses.

http://www.tiobe.com/tiobe_index

[tvon]

I think this is a case where the topic is something that enough people want to discuss so the post generates discussion regardless of the content.

I agree with the basic gist of your comment, there isn't much content here to discuss (no offense to the author, it doesn't seem like it was meant for a site like HN). Though I think you might be over-reacting a bit with the tone of your comment.

[pka]

In the time it took you to write your content-free comment, you could've googled Elm and seen the error messages yourself.

[mdm_]

Great, I look forward to future HN posts such as "Elm is really super. The rest of this article is left as an exercise for the reader."