Over on Slack, someone posted in #jobs a that “We have developed a version of our app in Elm and want to change the framework to React to take the app to the next level.” This prompted a really long and interesting discussion of reasons that people have been forced (typically by management, rather…

(To be clear, the goal here is to identify organizational motivations/pathologies that cause organizations to decide to move off of Elm, not to pick on Elm.)

Once I developed a dashboard in elm-spa / elm-ui. It was very fast, in 3 days I done it. The technology choice was free, but then the manager said that the sales department sold it as a react app and he forgot to tell me, and I needed to redo, it took me 7 days plus 1 extra day some time later to fi…

At my previous job, we got together a cross-functional team to design, build and deliver a project. The team was me as the front end engineer, a full stack engineer, a data-scientist/project lead, and a part time GIS expert. I was a reasonably seasoned Elm developer and the fullstack engineer was qu…

I experienced a couple Elm projects that eventually were rewritten in other languages. Even though it is a minority, as we have several projects now in Elm, I was puzzled about why this happened. I guess there were multiple factors but the common denominator was about individuals that battled on a…

I’m working in team that does back office apps for my company. We tried Elm and wrote few apps but now we advice against using it. It boils down to the fact that Elm is a middle ground between typescript and advanced functional language and we don’t get much benefit from this. On the one hand it i…

On the other hand, Elm type system is limited and we can’t express our domain through it. Our apps deal with complex information and we’d like to have more tools at our disposal than records and tagged sums. We’d like to enforce laws and relations between data, even if we need to pay with steeper l…

[image] jhbrown: organizational motivations/pathologies Management. I spied an interesting twitter clip of Steve Jobs talking about how companies reward Sales/Marketing at the expense of Product people till the company is guided by people who have no idea what makes a successful product let a…

This is a very interesting discussion. I have used Elm in my previous and now at my current company. When I joined the company, out of 8 devs only me who was really into Elm. There were a couple of devs who didn’t mind doing Elm, but there were who would never do it. Through 4 years of elm experien…

[image] grrinchas: Elm allows using of imperative programming concepts such as let statements. Devs from imperative programming background they really love let clauses. This antipattern is so annoying. It allows for creating huge functions. I have seen a function of 1000s of lines. Eventually, I…

Reasons that people were forced to move from Elm to something else?

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(Oh yeah, and to provide a cathartic outlet for the victims.)

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Reasons that people were forced to move from Elm to something else?

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