[metayrnc]

The author mentions lustre, the web framework for Gleam that was inspired by Elm. I really like Elm. However, the limitation for me was the lack of a really robust component library. When I say component library, I don’t mean aesthetics but function. For example, a feature complete search bar with autocomplete, multiselect, create, delete, clear, etc. functionality. The reason I use typescript is because of component libraries like Mantine where generic components such as a search bar are already implemented, fully functional and accessible. I hope someone sees this gap and tries to fill it so that functional languages can be viable on the web!

[hayleighdotdev]

Author of Lustre here! Yeah I agree, lack of a robust headless component library like radix-ui or react-aria is such a mark against Elm. I think it's even more important for Lustre because really all our users are going to be backendy folks with little interest in the nitty gritty frontend stuff.

Lustre will eventually have a companion ui library to plug this gap but it turns out maintaining all this stuff is a bit of a time sink, so I'm taking baby steps ^.^

[giraffe_lady]

ReScript is really solid in this niche IMO. It's basically ocaml that compiles to js. The standard library includes excellent bindings to react, so you can use react components without too much extra work. You do have to write your own type annotations for them, but it's way way less trouble than elm ports.

[lpil]

I believe this is on the roadmap for the Lustre framework.