I'm moving away from working with Elm also, but for different reasons.
I don't care that Elm isn't some jolly club where everyone gets to join in. If it were, we would 100% see escape hatches, and, ultimately, runtime errors.
I also don't care that it doesn't have typeclasses or other more powerful language features. The fact that the language is small is a feature. It's much more thoughtfully designed than JavaScript (which is now worse than it was 10 years ago as it has continued to accrete features it envied from other languages).
I think Elm is the best technology in its space. If I wanted to build a single page application, I would absolutely, 100%, write it in Elm.
I'm moving away from working with Elm because I just don't need to write single page applications, and I believe developers are all too eager to write single page applications unnecessarily.
I don't care that Elm isn't some jolly club where everyone gets to join in. If it were, we would 100% see escape hatches, and, ultimately, runtime errors.
I also don't care that it doesn't have typeclasses or other more powerful language features. The fact that the language is small is a feature. It's much more thoughtfully designed than JavaScript (which is now worse than it was 10 years ago as it has continued to accrete features it envied from other languages).
I think Elm is the best technology in its space. If I wanted to build a single page application, I would absolutely, 100%, write it in Elm.
I'm moving away from working with Elm because I just don't need to write single page applications, and I believe developers are all too eager to write single page applications unnecessarily.