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Compiler for Elm, a functional language for reliable webapps.

58 mentions on Hacker News by 46 people: 7 stories, 51 comments · first 2015-05-16 · latest 2026-08-25

Mentions per year 58 mentions · busiest year 2023 (15)
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  1. …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
  2. …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)
  3. …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
  4. …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
  5. 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
  6. …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
  7. 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
  8. 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
  9. > 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
  10. …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
  11. 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
  12. https://github.com/elm/compiler/issues/1773
    comment by vmchale · 2023-04-09 · in Why and how we retired Elm
  13. …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
  14. 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…
  15. …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?
  16. …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
  17. …(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
  18. …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
  19. …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
  20. 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
  21. …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
  22. https://github.com/elm/compiler/blob/master/roadmap.md
    comment by moistoreos · 2021-08-18 · in Elm at Rakuten
  23. …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.
  24. 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
  25. …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)
  26. 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)
  27. …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
  28. 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
  29. 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]
  30. …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
  31. …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
  32. …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…
  33. …with a hotfix for the debugger that works for most applications, even medium and large ones: https://github.com/elm/compiler/pull/1850
  34. …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
  35. …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... )?
  36. It's in the release notes, as with every other open source project: https://github.com/elm/compiler/blob/master/upgrade-docs/0.1...
  37. …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…
  38. …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?
  39. …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?
  40. 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.
  41. …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-...
  42. ….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
  43. 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
  44. When he removed the feature it was after consulting the community ( https://github.com/elm-lang/elm-compiler/issues/985 ).
    comment by Skinney · 2016-11-09 · in Elm is Wrong
  45. …is conceptually easy to understand in the span of a few paragraphs, like in the blog post. [1] https://github.com/elm-lang/elm-compiler/issues/1283 PS. I'm certain evancz has a reasoning behind his wish to keep the feature out of Elm. He…
    comment by mfukar · 2016-11-09 · in Elm is Wrong
  46. …of this feature on Github there seems to be a few more points made that the author alludes to: https://github.com/elm-lang/elm-compiler/issues/985 Also, It's worth noting that Elm does have a BDFL. Evan makes the call and, as I'm sure a…
    comment by benjaminjosephw · 2016-11-09 · in Elm is Wrong
  47. …have to reimplement instead of generalise. It is actively discussed in the Elm community ( https://github.com/elm-lang/elm-compiler/issues/1039 ), but with a Wait-And-See-Approach. In my opinion, this is really laudable, as it signals…
  48. …limited to front-end use. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elm_(programming_language)#Lim... [2] https://github.com/elm-lang/elm-compiler/issues/396
  49. No, and they're not planned either. There has been much discussion about them in the years: https://github.com/elm-lang/elm-compiler/issues/1039
    comment by doppioslash · 2016-05-10 · in A Farewell to FRP
  50. …Type: String Actual Type: number Evan said it wasn't so easy to fix. You can see the issue here: https://github.com/elm-lang/elm-compiler/issues/216 At the time I was trying to learn elm (and functional programming) and I didn't know it…
    comment by rnhmjoj · 2015-06-30 · in Compiler Errors for Humans