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Elm releases its first update since 2019

story by nor0x · 2026-08-25 · 0 comments

…everything under the hood. So maybe this hashable type is going to make things better, idk. [0] https://github.com/elm/compiler/issues/774#issuecomment-3472... [1] https://github.com/rtfeldman/elm-sorter-experiment [2]…

comment by 1-more · 2026-07-07 · in Road to Elm 1.0

…last commits for elm/compiler were minor fixes in 2023. Last substantial changes were in 2021. See https://github.com/elm/compiler/commits/master/ The last commits for elm/core were in the first months of 2021. See…

comment by idoubtit · 2025-02-16 · in Why I'm leaving Elm (2020)

…F# * jet.com repos https://github.com/jet?language=f%23 Haskell * Elm compiler https://github.com/elm/compiler Lisp * CL-PPCRE https://github.com/edicl/cl-ppcre/ * Mezzano USB driver https://github.com/froggey/Mezzano/blob/master/drivers

comment by culi · 2023-06-17 · in Ask HN: What are some of the most elegant codebases in your favorite language?

…releases is totally normal and all according to some master plan. [0] 290 issues and counting: https://github.com/elm/compiler/issues

comment by lolinder · 2023-06-10 · in Gren – an Elm fork

You'll see people arguing that it's not, but I'll let you be the judge. https://elm-lang.org/news https://github.com/elm/compiler/pulse/monthly https://github.com/elm/core/pulse/monthly https://github.com/elm/compiler/commits/master…

comment by lolinder · 2023-06-10 · in Gren – an Elm fork

…it's been over 2 years without an Elm release. And there are many open bugs untracked in GitHub. https://github.com/elm/compiler/issues Unrelated to your question but for those curious, here's a comparison between Gren and Elm :…

comment by hu3 · 2023-06-10 · in Gren – an Elm fork

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Elm/compiler: Matching on negative literals results in a parser error

story by luu · 2023-05-24 · 8 comments

Quintessential experience of talking to Elm core team: https://github.com/elm/compiler/issues/1773#issuecomment-418... What's funny, rtfeldman uses case expression with numbers in his (in OP's blogpost) praised library elm-hex, so it's not…

comment by dhucerbin · 2023-05-23 · in Why I Use Elm in 2023

The core team refuses to fix straightforward bugs: https://github.com/elm/compiler/issues/1773

comment by vmchale · 2023-05-23 · in Why I Use Elm in 2023

> It is clear that Elm is understaffed, to say the least. The core team treat bug reports as insults: https://github.com/elm/compiler/issues/1773

comment by vmchale · 2023-05-23 · in Why I Use Elm in 2023

…rock-solid nor complete. The authors refused to fix a parser error related to negative literals: https://github.com/elm/compiler/issues/1773

comment by vmchale · 2023-05-23 · in Why I Use Elm in 2023

Looking at the number of opened bugs and lack of releases, I wouldn't call it rock solid. https://github.com/elm/compiler/issues

comment by hu3 · 2023-05-23 · in Why I Use Elm in 2023

https://github.com/elm/compiler/issues/1773

comment by vmchale · 2023-04-09 · in Why and how we retired Elm

…are still the primary documents for long-time Elm users to set expectations about this work. [2] https://github.com/elm/compiler/blob/master/roadmap.md [3] https://discourse.elm-lang.org/t/status-update-3-nov-2021/78... EDIT: In the second…

comment by surprisetalk · 2023-04-08 · in Why and how we retired Elm

Give Elm a shot. We haven't had a breaking change to the current version since August 2018: https://github.com/elm/compiler/tags In fact, the single most frequent criticism of our community is, "Is Elm dead? It hasn't been updated in…

comment by eckza · 2023-02-17 · in Simple Modern JavaScript Using JavaScript Modules and Import Maps

…that the last release was in 2019 and most of the repo hasn't been touched for 2 years or more: https://github.com/elm/compiler

comment by PragmaticPulp · 2023-02-10 · in Ask HN: What Happened to Elm?

…currently focusing on setting up "Elm Studio" for hosting and a new "Elm Foundation". [1] Roadmap: https://github.com/elm/compiler/blob/master/roadmap.md [2] State of Elm 2022: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vexdf-Rd-AE

comment by surprisetalk · 2023-01-04 · in Ask HN: What language/framework for simple web app in 2023?

…(or so the saying goes). [1] https://groups.google.com/g/elm-dev/c/1JW6wknkDIo/m/H9ZnS71B... [2] https://github.com/elm/compiler/blob/master/roadmap.md

comment by 1-more · 2022-11-03 · in SVGs as Elm Code

…a step back" notice from over a year ago. *[edit] essentially nothing has happened for over a year https://github.com/elm/compiler/commits/master

comment by ch4s3 · 2022-10-11 · in Elm at a Billion Dollar Company with Vendr CTO Aaron White [audio]

…will be stable for quite some time, but you can get some idea of the ongoing compiler work here: https://github.com/elm/compiler/blob/master/roadmap.md from: https://elm-lang.org/news

comment by lalaithion · 2022-10-11 · in Elm at a Billion Dollar Company with Vendr CTO Aaron White [audio]

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Ask HN: Is Elm Dead?

story by felixguendling · 2022-05-23 · 19 comments

If anything, the insanity just got worse: https://github.com/elm/compiler/issues/1773#issuecomment-418... There's an open bug re: negative literals, and accusations of bad faith towards the reporter.

comment by vmchale · 2022-01-22 · in My Elm Experience

…work unless you remove the check from the compiler or use a hacky workaround to trick the compiler: https://github.com/elm/compiler/blob/770071accf791e817144070...

comment by smitop · 2021-11-22 · in Rust Moderation Team Resigns

https://github.com/elm/compiler/blob/master/roadmap.md

comment by moistoreos · 2021-08-18 · in Elm at Rakuten

…comparison worked like they were Enumerated Types. Elm does not have Enumerated types. Basically https://github.com/elm/compiler/issues/1008 made me look for better alternatives.

comment by vyuh · 2021-06-02 · in Flame: A PureScript front-end framework inspired by the Elm architecture

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Elm Roadmap

story by mauroc8 · 2021-02-16 · 9 comments

See also: https://github.com/elm/compiler/issues/1773#issuecomment-418... Dismissive maintainers indeed!

comment by vmchale · 2020-12-04 · in Fable 3: F# to JavaScript compiler

…is an error now [0]. This and the comment from the issue [1] do not inspire confidence in me. [0] https://github.com/elm/compiler/commit/0e669b8ad076f64e450f2... [1] https://github.com/elm/compiler/issues/1773#issuecomment-418... the same…

comment by hawski · 2020-05-29 · in What's in a Parser Combinator? (2016)

I don’t know much about Elm, but one of the few things I have heard of is this GitHub issue: https://github.com/elm/compiler/issues/1773 . Am I putting too much emphasis on this particular picked cherry or does the compiler do this in…

comment by saagarjha · 2020-05-29 · in What's in a Parser Combinator? (2016)

…that there are a lot of bruised egos, and a whole heck of a lot of wasted time because of it. [1] https://github.com/elm/compiler/issues/1908

comment by tomlagier · 2020-04-11 · in Why I’m Leaving Elm

Elm has a bus-factor of 1. https://github.com/elm/compiler/graphs/contributors I feel quite uncomfortable hitching my wagon to a single developer who owes me nothing.

comment by GiorgioG · 2020-04-09 · in Why I’m Leaving Elm

There's some indirect discussion here that seems to contradict that, but I certainly could be wrong. https://github.com/elm/compiler/issues/973

comment by macintux · 2020-01-03 · in C++ Pattern Matching Proposal [pdf]

…had a noticeable improvement as well with this release, but is not mentioned in this blog post. [1] https://github.com/elm/compiler/issues/1851

comment by dorian-graph · 2019-10-21 · in Elm 0.19.1

…but this also was an explicit choice[3] which developer time was spent implementing. [1] https://github.com/elm/compiler/issues/621 [2] https://ellie-app.com/5KRg4g5ZMkba1 [3] https://github.com/elm/compiler/issues/1573

comment by T-R · 2019-06-06 · in Why GitHub used Haskell for Semantic

…is an issue with external packages. There is a PR for that already, but it has not yet been merged: https://github.com/elm/compiler/pull/1850 At CurrySoftware we run a fork of the Elm compiler which merges this PR and has a feature to use…

comment by jdemler · 2019-04-08 · in Ask HN: Why doesn't a time travel debugger exist yet for JavaScript?

…with a hotfix for the debugger that works for most applications, even medium and large ones: https://github.com/elm/compiler/pull/1850

comment by neslinesli93 · 2019-04-08 · in Ask HN: Why doesn't a time travel debugger exist yet for JavaScript?

…sometimes. Yet there seems to be a decent amount of activity on GitHub, so it clearly hasn't been: https://github.com/elm/compiler/commits/master

comment by nilkn · 2019-04-08 · in Ask HN: Why doesn't a time travel debugger exist yet for JavaScript?

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ELM 0.19 – new elm.json format for packages

story by adelarsq · 2018-08-21 · 0 comments

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ELM – Upgrading to 0.19

story by adelarsq · 2018-08-21 · 0 comments

…you created elm.js and compiled your code, and fixed what doesn't work according to the changes ( https://github.com/elm/compiler/blob/master/upgrade-docs/0.1... )?

comment by z5h · 2018-08-21 · in Small Assets without the Headache in Elm 0.19

It's in the release notes, as with every other open source project: https://github.com/elm/compiler/blob/master/upgrade-docs/0.1...

comment by Skinney · 2018-08-21 · in Small Assets without the Headache in Elm 0.19

…said, it's just a hunch based on looking at the compiler commits. Recent changes to [elm-compiler]( https://github.com/elm-lang/elm-compiler ) are of cosmetic character, so probably not many blockers left to do before the alpha. Some docs…

comment by mjaniczek · 2018-04-03 · in Ask HN: Are you using Elm? is the development active?

…someone couldn't just fork Elm and come out with a new less-dictatorial leadership-driven project? https://github.com/elm-lang/elm-compiler/blob/master/LICENSE Actually, what IS that license? Is it completely unique and not one of the more…

comment by pmarreck · 2018-03-03 · in Do we need to move away from Elm?

…basically asking people to fork your project and what happens after that is unknowable ... [1]: https://github.com/elm-lang/elm-compiler/blob/d07679322ef5d7...

comment by tazjin · 2018-03-03 · in Do we need to move away from Elm?

No. It is still being actively developed: https://github.com/elm-lang/core/commits/master / https://github.com/elm-lang/elm-compiler/commits/master But it's been 14 months since the latest full release.

comment by gregdunn · 2018-02-19 · in Elm changed my mind about unpopular languages

…To achieve that goal the source language is significantly different than the target language. [1] https://github.com/elm-lang/elm-compiler/issues/1453#issueco... [2] https://github.com/elm-lang/elm-make/issues/91#issuecomment-...

comment by zachrose · 2017-09-11 · in Web frameworks are transforming from runtime libraries into optimizing compilers

….google.com/d/msg/elm-discuss/oyrODCgYmQI/T2I_... [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oYk8CKH7OhE [2] https://github.com/elm-lang/elm-compiler/issues/1039 [3] http://faq.elm-community.org/#does-elm-have-ad-hoc-polymorph... > Elm not…

comment by rtfeldman · 2017-08-02 · in State of Elm 2017 Results

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Elm – “Designing to infantilize a target audience is how we got Java”

story by HappyAndHarmles · 2016-11-16 · 7 comments

One such magic is the "comparable" thing. See http://reasonablypolymorphic.com/blog/elm-is-wrong and https://github.com/elm-lang/elm-compiler/issues/774

comment by HappyAndHarmles · 2016-11-15 · in Debugging with Elm 0.18