Comment by brokencode

Yeah Elm has had a very strange arc, but I think calling it a research language is right.

There was a period where it was heavily evangelized. Many blog posts were written and talks given, and there was a lot of enthusiasm and adoption.

Then the author just kind of disappeared and the project stalled.

Which of course he had a right to do since it’s his project, but I think he should have set expectations better from the beginning.

The heavy evangelism helped spread the ideas, but also set up developers to feel blindsided and abandoned.