Why I’m Leaving Elm

I believe Elm took some major missteps. Despite doing so many things right with the initial designs (and still one of the best designed front-end experiences) it never grew much beyond the early adopters and it basically remained a fun hobby language. I criticized the basic lack of communication and the infrequent updates in r/elm (I believed these infrequent updates were going to kill the momentum of Elm). I was concerned that it made the language seem stagnant. Immediately, after…

I asked "Ask HN: Is Elm dead" in 2022 with mixed results. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31485011 IMO it's safe to say that Elm is dead and won't come back with this attitude of the core team (which is not the only problem of the language). We never switched to Elm 0.19 from 0.18 but moved on to rewrite in Svelte 5 with TypeScript and never looked back.

> they need to think of themselves as stewards and not owners. This is an important idea that a lot don't seem to get. Of cource, if you're in (US) business, the norm is to be an owner, often with a PR veneer of steward or faux folksiness, and most savvy people understand that. (Junior engineers are to be forgiven for not yet understanding that the megacorp or aspiring techbro-ionaire is often trying to trick the kids to get into…