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by carapace 1403 days ago
Elm isn't dead. It's in that happy place of stability, people are getting things done with it w/o hassle or churn.

I've heard that an Elm-to-native app compiler is in the works somewhere, which IMO is very exciting.

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"Elm is dead" means different things to different people. I think what most people mean is they are not adding the features that they want from Elm. Elm has a strong opinionated nature, as well as being very well scoped to the front end and using "TEA" system for rendering, so it may appear that it is dead because there isn't much to update anymore.

People are still working on Elm ecosystem packages, so I think that is evidence that it isn't dead. But it isn't as "alive" (or perhaps... hectic) as the JS ecosystem of course.