I've always thought that Elm was like Purescript in the way that it was just another way to bring the good parts of Haskell (a good type system) into JS.
I didn't consider elm's architecture as the main value proposition -- if you squint it looks just like every other data management model for component-based approaches these days -- flux, redux, etc all work in a similar way, +/- immutability.
Hopefully people aren't out there thinking that Elm has done something to magically make it much harder to write runtime errors -- they added a powerful ergonomic-where-possible type system.
If developers out there are still thinking types are "bad for JS" or that using types in code is weird/unnecessary, they might be suffering from Blub[0], and need to go out and see what other languages are doing maybe widen their perspectives. Not every language with a good type system looks like Java/Dart/Typescript/etc (some people can even argue that Java doesn't have a good type system) and I often meet engineers who think adding/checking types basically means making javascript into java.
I didn't consider elm's architecture as the main value proposition -- if you squint it looks just like every other data management model for component-based approaches these days -- flux, redux, etc all work in a similar way, +/- immutability.
Hopefully people aren't out there thinking that Elm has done something to magically make it much harder to write runtime errors -- they added a powerful ergonomic-where-possible type system.
If developers out there are still thinking types are "bad for JS" or that using types in code is weird/unnecessary, they might be suffering from Blub[0], and need to go out and see what other languages are doing maybe widen their perspectives. Not every language with a good type system looks like Java/Dart/Typescript/etc (some people can even argue that Java doesn't have a good type system) and I often meet engineers who think adding/checking types basically means making javascript into java.
[0]: http://wiki.c2.com/?BlubParadox