IBM releases Elm-powered app
I don't understand why this is noteworthy.<p>I think maybe this is when you decide 'maybe our language has failed'.  Or at least admit it's a toy language that hasn't been properly engineered to be effectively used commercially.  When it's a 'worth mentioning' when a single app has been written in it by some dying company.<p>I mean, imagine if we had a headline on the frontpage of HN for every app written in C or C++ or Java or Python (or Objective-C or Swift or C# or even Visual Basic or Rust)<p>Steve Yegge said it best almost 10 years ago: <a href="https://steve-yegge.blogspot.com/2010/12/haskell-researchers-announce-discovery.html" rel="nofollow">https://steve-yegge.blogspot.com/2010/12/haskell-researchers...</a><p>Functional languages are great toys but nobody uses them to get work done, almost without exception.