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by abrookewood 26 days ago
Am I right in thinking that Elm has lost a lot of momentum? It is barely discussed on HN anymore and I wonder if the releases/news have a lot to do with it. Look at the time between releases:

0.19.2 Faster builds, and the Road to Elm 1.0 Jul 2026

0.19.1 Friendly syntax hints, faster builds Oct 2019

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There's very little left to discuss, unfortunately. The 0.19 release included some extremely controversial changes. The core Elm team responded by killing all discussion of it and (to the outside world) abandoning the project, the Elm community responded by scattering to a dozen forks and reimplementations of The Elm Architecture.

Everything which could've been said has been said a dozen times already. People have moved on, and Elm is mostly remembered as one of the web's greatest front-end could-have-beens.