[FrustratedMonky]

I was just reacting to general sentiment. Few days ago was similar posts about Rust. And one about Python.

And got me thinking, in a world where anybody can fork a project, and tweak it, how does a language keep a solid base to work from. And it does seem like it is those with corporate backing.

I'm not against it. I'm a big fan of F#.

But kind of sad that ELM isn't making it, since, in my opinion the ELM architecture is great concept for functional languages to do GUI's.

[jgilias]

Well, yeah, but Elm can’t have corporate backing (apart from NoRedInk where Richard Feldman is CTO) for the reasons outlined in the article. It’s suicide to pick Elm for important production applications when you know that the escape hatches have been welded shut. Go explain to your boss how you have to spend two years to implement, say, an internationalization library because Evan says so. The Elm approach is borderline crazy here. As a technical decision maker you have to hedge your risks in order to ensure you can deliver. And using Elm is just a very risky decision.

I rant about this because I actually really enjoyed programming in Elm when I tried it out. But this shortsightedness has basically killed it. Had they been more lax with native modules and more community oriented, the language would be much bigger now.

Alas, it is what it is.

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> apart from NoRedInk

https://noredink.com/about/team

> where Richard Feldman is CTO

https://noredink.com/about/team

[FrustratedMonky]

Yeah. I'm bit sad about it too. I thought the ELM architecture was great concept. I'm not really for or against corp control. Just on technical merits, I wish ELM had succeeded more because I like that style. And in todays world it seems to take a lot more than technical reasons to succeed.

[xupybd]

Elmish in F# is really nice