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david@feddit.uk ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

Elm (for frontend).

Nothing is as easy to refactor, maintain, add new features to, work with after a gap, nothing else is as crashless and rock solid.

No compiler is a fast, friendly, helpful and insightful.

Its syntax is weird at first (even stranger than python) and the autoformatter is mad keen on black lines but after a short while it’s just so clear and easy to follow.

You have to let go of your object oriented mindset and stop trying to turn everything into objects and components but everything I hated about maintaining old code evaporated once I did.

It’s genuinely nice to add new features to old code, something I’ve never experienced before in a few decades of programming.

The elm slack is also a very helpful place indeed and you usually get a lot of support pretty quickly.

These last few years I’ve rediscovered the joy of coding.

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christophski@feddit.uk ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
I’ve literally never heard of this before. Are there any major projects which use this?

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- david@feddit.uk ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  github.com/jah2488/elm-companies Vendr use it too (didn’t spot them in the list) www.vendr.com
  
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technojamin@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
I really love Elm, and it challenges the common notion of what it means to be a “healthy” language/ecosystem. It’s a beautiful passion project that can really only be used if you adhere to the vision of its creator, but it’s a really admirable and utopian vision.

The reasons for it not being very popular are pretty clear (slow language evolution, “one way to do anything”, perfectionist design), but it’s an extremely cohesive and friendly language. I’ve never used it for anything serious, but I hope it stays around. Clearly the creator isn’t aiming for widespread adoption, but I hope that the niche it’s created grows nonetheless, because it’s a lovely ecosystem and community.

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