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Why I'm leaving Elm (2020)

Why I can't use Elm, and can't recommend it to others.

Sometimes you will find denials or defences from the core developers, but I really don't think you can escape the conclusion that Elm has a very threatening, aggressive leadership style – for example, see the edit at the bottom of this anonymous comment on a Hacker News post: You only have to click a few times on package.elm-lang.org to find some view source links, and discover that of the 6 “popular packages” listed at the top, 5 of them are partly written in Javascript – core, json, browser, url, http. With any other Open Source project I've ever been involved in, if I work on some bug fix or feature, I have a very high degree of confidence that my contribution, if accepted, would benefit everyone in the community equally – or at least without any deliberate discrimination.

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