Elm 0.19.1
I built a project using Elm last summer. Here is my quick feedback:<p>+ The language syntax is very nice and refreshing.<p>+ It's a joy to work with the compiler.<p>+ If it's compiling, it's working! No runtime exceptions.<p>+ Static typing!<p>+ Functional programming!<p>- The language doesn't have component composition (like in React or Vue) and you end up having huge chunks of spaghetti code (but to be fair, it kind of works because of the compiler).<p>- It's complicated to implement routing and to build a Single Page Application.<p>- Only pure functions in Elm, so doing API calls and generating random numbers are unnecessary hard.<p>- It's a pain to parse JSON.<p>- There is no variable shadowing, so naming your stuff is harder than it should be.<p>- Vue embraces HTML, Elm avoids HTML, and it's really a pain to build HTML view in Elm. <div><a href="hello">world</a></div> becomes div [] [ a [ href "hello" ] [ text 'world" ] ]<p>- There is a lack of leadership and community building in this project. We don't know what's going on and where the project is going. It's like a black box. No roadmap. All issues on Github, all posts on Elm Discourse get no response.<p>So in the end, Elm is an interesting beast, but I think it's too academical and not really practical for serious projects.