[trobertson]

> the language is an unsurmountable pile of poorly-thought-out and impossible-to-compose new ideas on top of the least interesting pieces of Haskell

For a Haskell programmer, what he tried to do (use typeclasses) is extremely common. It's some of the most basic stuff you can do. Elm is clearly modeled after Haskell, and absolutely fails to maintain the basic patterns that Haskell users take for granted.

[elbear]

The thing is Javascript programmers are the target audience for Elm not Haskell programmers. I can understand the frustration if you're coming to Elm with a Haskell mindset.