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> any advantages Elm might have had initially, is coming to parity with other solutions.

Absolutely. Elm filled a particular void in front-end development for a while, but much more mature, well-maintained, growing communities are now sprouting up that offer powerful statically-typed functional programming that transpiles to Javascript, all valid alternatives to Elm with far fewer risks. ReasonML probably being at the top of that list.



TypeScript is at the top of the list if you include unsound approaches.


Only problem there is that TS is still JS, with a lot of JS warts that bother many devs.

Other JS transpiling languages have entirely different semantics from JS altogether, which also make them attractive.


That TS is basically JS with types is what makes it so popular.




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