I installed it on my M1 iMac. elm make src/Main.elm works great for https://mammudeck.com. Faster, though improving three seconds to one second isn’t a big deal. Main.elm has 20444 lines, 630K bytes, and a lot of dependencies.
This provides two new binaries for it! I’m going to update it later.
This makes the elm-tooling CLI less relevant. I intend to open issues for elm-format and elm-json as well later, about copying the npm approach, which would make it even less relevant.
Package size: I haven’t measured yet, but I expect the new elm package to be slightly smaller than elm-tooling (which is already tiny).
Installation speed: Will probably be basically no difference for uncached installs. Technically elm-tooling might be faster since it needs exactly 1 npm package request, while the elm package would need 1 + number of different binaries (it won’t download them all, but needs to make a metadata request for all of them). But we’re talking milliseconds here.
Disk space usage: With elm-tooling you get exactly one of each binary on your computer; with npm you get one per project. You can solve this more generally by using pnpm though.
Execution speed: elm-tooling will be slightly faster on Windows. An npm package is forced to execute the “binary” it provides with node (which in turn executes elm in our case), which adds around 100 ms of execution time. elm-tooling can instead use a .cmd file which executes much faster.
Security: elm-tooling verifies downloads with SHA256 hashes; npm verifies all packages (including the ones where we distribute elm binaries) with SHA512 hashes.
elm-test-rs: Currently has no npm package – elm-tooling is “the way” to install it. However, this new way of installing is pretty lightweight so maybe elm-test-rs will get an npm package now.
Ease of use: Probably easier to use the new elm npm package than elm-tooling. But maybe not if you count setting up pnpm (if you choose to use that for disk space savings).
Mirrors: elm-tooling is currently hardcoded to download from github.com, while there are npm mirrors you can use if npmjs.com is not available for you.
I’m running a Mac with an M1 Pro chip and am doing elm development inside a VS Code dev container (via Docker) running aarch64 Debian GNU/Linux 11 (bullseye). I installed the package inside the container and it worked great! Thanks!
As far as I’m concerned, it doesn’t work with my current setup with either elm 0.19.1-5 or @lydell/elm 0.19.1-9, so nothing new here. My setup is Gulp with Yarn 2, so I guess the gulp-elm plugin that I’m using doesn’t know about Yarn 2. (It only works if elm is absent from my package.json, and the plugin then relies on my global elm install.) Looking forward to switching to elm-watch on this project
So I tried updating globally: removed global elm with npm, installed global @lydell/elm with npm. I see no change when I build so I guess it’s working!
(In case the fix to my unrelated issue above is obvious to anyone, the error I’m getting is “SyntaxError: Invalid or unexpected token” on the beginning ELF characters. I guess that means it’s trying to read a binary as JavaScript? Sorry, that’s totally irrelevant to the post)
Yep, neither elm nor @lydell/elm work with Yarn 2/3. (It might work if you don’t use PnP or whatever – I’m not that into Yarn 2/3.)
@lydell/elm took a lot of inspiration from esbuild’s npm installer. They have some very elaborate workarounds for Yarn 2/3. Since the current elm package does not work either with Yarn 2/3 I decided to scope that out for some other time. Interesting to hear from a Yarn 2/3 user though!
(What happens is that the package replaces its JS entrypoint with the executable itself as an optimization. Yarn 2/3 does not seem to like that.)
Oh okay, so Yarn (with PnP) is the issue then, not Gulp or the gulp-elm plugin. Might consider going back to npm at some point then I would argue it’s a pretty big issue that it doesn’t work with yarn, but maybe it’s just yarn’s fault, not anticipating enough potentially breaking use cases. Also it’s not blocking since you can just run the global binary.
Wow! This is great news!!! I’m sitting behind a corporate firewall and have not been able to install elm through npm due to then elm binary not being downloaded through internal npm proxy.
I have just tested with "@lydell/elm": "0.19.1-9" and it worked great. Thanks!!!
If the same solution could be applied to elm-format and the other elm-tools it would be awesome.
I have used my 8 years old MacBook Air macOS Mojave for this purpose successfully.
I have first removed the official version with npm -g uninstall elm and installed globally the temporary version npm install @lydell/elm
(To be sure, only the new elm is running, elm must be deleted also from /usr/local/bin folder.)
All seems to work excellent, at least no new problems appeared so far.
Here are some little examples of my tests with elm reactor and elm-spa.
Hello,
I tried on a prooted linux install which is on my android phone. It failed with following output and logs.
system
lscpu
Architecture: aarch64
CPU op-mode(s): 32-bit, 64-bit
Byte Order: Little Endian
CPU(s): 8
On-line CPU(s) list: 0-7
Vendor ID: Qualcomm
Model name: Kryo V2
Model: 4
Thread(s) per core: 1
Core(s) per socket: 4
Socket(s): 1
Stepping: 0xa
CPU max MHz: 1612.8000
CPU min MHz: 633.6000
BogoMIPS: 38.40
Flags: fp asimd evtstrm aes pmull sha1
sha2 crc32
Model name: Falkor V1/Kryo
Model: 2
Thread(s) per core: 1
Core(s) per socket: 4
Socket(s): 1
Stepping: 0xa
CPU max MHz: 1804.8000
CPU min MHz: 1113.6000
BogoMIPS: 38.40
Flags: fp asimd evtstrm aes pmull sha1
sha2 crc32
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npm install @lydell/elm
npm ERR! Exit handler never called! npm ERR! This is an error with npm itself. Please report this error at:
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Someone on Discord reported Android not being supported either. (Just to be clear: Neither the latest official elm package nor @lydell/elm does, so it’s not a regression.)
However, when they tried compiling a “Hello World” Elm program it didn’t work, so I didn’t look into supporting it in my package.
I would argue it’s a pretty big issue that it doesn’t work with yarn, but maybe it’s just yarn’s fault, not anticipating enough potentially breaking use cases. Also it’s not blocking since you can just run the global binary.
