[botexpert]

why not flowtype/typescript+js es6+react+redux/mobx?

currently a pretty nice reactive mobx-state-tree is on the frontpage of hn.

[ggregoire]

I'm quite sure it's exactly for that reason, not having to choose between

- Flow vs Typescript

- ES5 vs Babel

- React vs Angular vs Vue vs jQuery

- Webpack vs Rollup

- Redux vs Flux vs Mobx vs React states

etc...

Plus, probably lots of dev prefer Elm's syntax and design.

[davidbanham]

This is exactly the reason I'm interested in Elm. My team has gone from React to React + Flux to React + Redux to React + Redux + Immutable to React + Redux + Flow in the last 2 years. That's a _lot_ of change, and we're not even talking about the build tool side of things with Browserify, Babel, Webpack etc.

In Elm I can see the same kind of framework simplicity that attracts me to Go.

[sgslo]

Parent is absolutely correct.

I can either work on Elm and deal with breaking changes like variable declarations (as noted above), or work on my React/Redux app, where I'm halfway refactoring from ReactRouter v3 -> v4 and Redux Form v4 -> v6, both of which are painful upgrades. Which would you rather deal with?

[q3r3qr3q]

Typescript has types, but it's the same terrible language underneath.