Anders Hovmöller
Jul 10, 2017 · 1 min read

The problem I have with Elm here is. It that it’s not functional or an ML like language. It’s that it forces you to not use the nice type safe features that was a big selling point in the first place OR accept enormous amounts of copy paste OR having to use code generators. Elm users keep suggesting ways to do this trivial thing to me and the solutions are always one of those three things: copy paste error prone horror, drop type safety and just do string, or generate Elm code.

I’m actually arguing for using Elm at work (over ClojureScript) but with the presumption that we’ll use Ned Batchelders code generation system Cog from the very first second to make Elm practical.

It’s pretty shit compared to Elm not being crippled but I think it’s still the best solution out there.

Anders Hovmöller

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