Another step towards Elm 1.0

39 pointsposted 2 days ago
by wheatBread
(elm-lang.org)

8 Comments

wheatBread

2 days ago

Elm is on a faster release cycle now, and 0.19.3 is out today. The post also has a rough roadmap of what to expect for the next few Elm releases.

jiehong

2 days ago

How I would wish to have no overhead type aliases in Java…

I’m happy to see Elm evolving well like this!

christophilus

2 days ago

Well, this is interesting. I think full stack Elm + Acadia is an interesting proposition. It’d be particularly interesting if the backend could target Go, Rust, or BEAM or something with better concurrency and parallelism than Node.

tpoindex

20 hours ago

> particularly interesting if the backend could target Go, Rust

A project in development (with heavy Claude assist) might be worth looking at. Elm language, multiple targets (server side/SSE, SPA, desktop, mobile, TUI, CLI), Go FFI, DB integration (SQLite/PG), plus lots of other libs. A Rust language compiler writes a Go runtime code, single executable.

I'm an old-timer and somewhat skeptical of AI generated code but has caught my interest. I've run through the examples, most seem to work as intended.

https://sky-lang.org/

satvikpendem

2 days ago

Too little, too late. Most have moved on from Elm years ago, including me, after having been burned by their holier-than-thou decisions regarding custom JS escape hatches.

blastingrock

2 days ago

that's such ancient history now :)

satvikpendem

a day ago

Elm hasn't changed since then so still relevant, and even then people remember being burned. In the days of LLMs especially there is no need to use subpar languages.