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Yep every 'native' library needed arduous review process via github issues. I waited for over a month for elm overlords to approve my 'native use' library , they simply closed the issue.

Dropped elm for react and co. Now I have serverside rendering, code splitting, working debugger ect which was impossible with elm.

This was last year though so not sure if it is still the process. YMV.

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It has changed, in that the language is moving away from Native code, and instead is trying to provide the web-platform as part of the language/core libs.

And for everything else, there's Ports. You can't use them in libraries, but for your own projects they're a much better JS FFI.

>And for everything else, there's Ports.

Ports are extremely tedious to use if you are doing anything even moderately complicated .

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