[leshow]

> He came to Elm expecting a Haskell for the web

No, I don't think that's true. He came to Elm hoping there would be some useful ways to create abstractions in the language (that doesn't necessarily mean there has to be typeclasses. in fact, the whole article his him pursuing an alternate method of abstraction), and besides creating a function there really is none in Elm.

You must resign yourself to write the same boilerplate over and over. It is impossible to keep any large Elm project DRY.

[walterstucco]

and who cares? fork the project and add the feature yourself. when I buy banana yogurts at the supermarket, I don't write to the yogurt company asking to change the flavour if I don't like it. I just buy a different brand of yogurt. Elm is even free as in free beer and free speech!

[michaelmrose]

There is a limited interaction between yogurt buyers and yogurt makers that solely consists of buying or not buying stuff. There is more interaction between programming language creators and programmers and indeed between programmers about their tools.

Analysis in depth is a useful thing for not only the creator who is likely to already understand the trade offs he has made but for other current and potential users of the language.