[salimmadjd]

I love Elm and I recommend it to everyone who wants to get into functional programming, especially Haskell.

Additionally I'm glad .19 finally came out. But 18 months was really long.

I'm guessing this was a good release point to show some major benefits, and I'm assuming that past 18 months was spent on more stuff that will come out later which is not ready yet.

The main change seems to be a smaller codebase. Which is great. This is done by dead code elimination and not including unused modules in addition of some incremental size reduction by record field renaming (replacing someReallyLong.name with s.n) . However some of the other concepts that supposedly was going to improve SPAs etc. are not released yet.

[lsjroberts]

The SPA improvements look to have been released as the new `Browser` package, there's some good stuff in the guides on it - https://guide.elm-lang.org/webapps/

[jxxcarlson]

Also: much faster compilation times and a parser combinator library (elm/parse) that for me is a game-changer. It makes live-rendering of LaTeX to HTML a reality. See https://medium.com/@jxxcarlson/elm-0-19-its-parser-and-minil...

[chosenbreed]

> Additionally I'm glad .19 finally came out. But 18 months was really long. On the basis that nothing was actually broken 18 months is not that long. I think there are benefits to be derived from working with a language/platform/ecosystem that doesn't change every few weeks. Just think about how many changes Angular has had in that time...

[kylecordes]

Although many people have seared-in memories about the transition from AngularJS 1.x to Angular 2.0, since 2.0 the improvements and Angular have a lot in common with today's Elm release. The same code still compiles, to smaller and faster output. The few breaking changes or deprecations happen slowly, with plenty of warning, and very little effort to keep up.

Of course it's more dramatic to find and discuss stark differences between "competing" platforms, but the boring truth here is that Angular and Elm are on the same side of the "should we be careful and methodical about development and change?" question.

[aarpmcgee]

Not sure if "nothing was actually broken" is true... very few of the dependencies from my 0.18 project work with 0.19.

[Skinney]

I think he was saying that during those 18 months of 0.19 development, everything was stable.

0.19 is very much a breaking change.