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Elm Programming Language

Discussions center on the Elm programming language for frontend web development, including recommendations, user experiences in production, comparisons to React and JavaScript, and debates about its features, limitations, and future.

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zoul • Apr 14, 2019 • View on HN

Elm (elm-lang.org) does some of that.

ryanlntn • Dec 15, 2014 • View on HN

Check out Elm: http://elm-lang.org/

chenshuiluke • Nov 9, 2016 • View on HN

What's a good alternative to Elm?

StavrosK • Feb 7, 2017 • View on HN

Isn't elm a language? Why compare it with frameworks?

pryelluw • Apr 13, 2017 • View on HN

Have you tried Elm? Id love to know your experiences.

neonological • Apr 19, 2021 • View on HN

You need to try elm. Elm is better despite not having everything you mentioned. I’m not a fanboy either. I just used elm for one project, but from that it’s already enough to know.

norman784 • May 27, 2015 • View on HN

do you think that Elm is in the good track? if you are involved with Elm, why I must using it? give me good reasons ;)

yakshaving_jgt • Feb 6, 2019 • View on HN

A variation on Elm? Why not just Elm?

ronanyeah • Jan 12, 2020 • View on HN

Elm is a great JS replacement on the frontend.

schwartzworld • Apr 17, 2019 • View on HN

Sounds like it, but Elm is only for front-end web dev.