[hellofunk]

> any advantages Elm might have had initially, is coming to parity with other solutions.

Absolutely. Elm filled a particular void in front-end development for a while, but much more mature, well-maintained, growing communities are now sprouting up that offer powerful statically-typed functional programming that transpiles to Javascript, all valid alternatives to Elm with far fewer risks. ReasonML probably being at the top of that list.

[seanmcdirmid]

TypeScript is at the top of the list if you include unsound approaches.

[hellofunk]

Only problem there is that TS is still JS, with a lot of JS warts that bother many devs.

Other JS transpiling languages have entirely different semantics from JS altogether, which also make them attractive.

[seanmcdirmid]

That TS is basically JS with types is what makes it so popular.