I think there’s a very weird mismatch between the way the core language people are pushing for the adoption of the language, and then at the same time they will turn around and say “we’ll, it’s not even 1.0, yet, so what’d you expect”.
The way Elm is developed is fit for a language that has little to no users, and can take going so long between updates, that remove escape hatches needed to fill out the immaturity of the language.
It really saddens me to see it go like this, because I once had high hopes for Elm. Nowadays I see it purely as a stepping-stone into more advanced languages like PureScript and Haskell. Elm is there to hold your hand, but it seems it has no intention of ever taking you further than the basics.
The way Elm is developed is fit for a language that has little to no users, and can take going so long between updates, that remove escape hatches needed to fill out the immaturity of the language.
It really saddens me to see it go like this, because I once had high hopes for Elm. Nowadays I see it purely as a stepping-stone into more advanced languages like PureScript and Haskell. Elm is there to hold your hand, but it seems it has no intention of ever taking you further than the basics.