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I see.

I would though. ELM has a very simple, straight forward syntax and everything revolves around the ELM architecture, which makes the whole thing very intuitive. I believe a statically typed and functional language will do just fine without any update for years as long as the initial implementation is done right. Unless there is a need to add some new feature, there is not point in updating the language if all the essentials were well implemented already. ELM compiles to JS and not to a native architecture. It'd be inappropriate to view ELM like one would view languages like C or any that uses LLVM as its backend.




> there is not point in updating the language if all the essentials were well implemented already.

There are bugfix PRs open for years now on the compiler and the core libraries.


And keep in mind you can't even fork the compiler to fix them lest you be cast out of their community, whatever is left of it anyway!




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