[dwohnitmok]

I've always seen Elm as being between a rock and a hard place socially. On the one hand, a lot of people with no FP experience dismiss it for being a "weird" FP language. On the other hand, a lot of people with FP experience dismiss it for not having some FP feature they really want (e.g. one that keeps coming up and just won't die is typeclasses).

Also there is a core Elm team consisting of something like half a dozen people, unless you mean a partner club of e.g. tech teams that use Elm.

I have an immense amount of respect for Evan Czaplicki for how he tries to thread the needle here and the huge amount of thought and craft he puts into the UI and UX of Elm to make it accessible. Unfortunately you can't please everyone (hell he doesn't even please me with all his decisions, the gall of him! ;)) and Elm has had its share of vocal naysayers. Elm may or may not die out, but the impact it's had on raising the bar for the UI/UX of dealing with a compiler has been IMO one of the most valuable advancements for statically typed languages in recent years.

[vmchale]

> a lot of people with FP experience dismiss it for not having some FP feature they really want (e.g. one that keeps coming up and just won't die is typeclasses).

You still can't write a generic sort function. It's not only typeclasses, there's also no module system and Evan is patronizing about it.