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I think it's a novel inversion of the status quo, where statically typed languages live on the server and dynamic languages live on the client.

I think that Elm and Elixir fit their respective development niches (UI, distributed systems) extremely well, both have similar community cultures, and both started gaining some traction at around the same time.

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I think Elixir is a wonderfully expressive language built on a strong foundation in the ErlangVM. It inherits Erlang's semantics which I've always liked.

Elm on the other hand inherits Javascript as its foundation, and the browser as its target. Javascript has an anemic standard library, and isn't a functional strongly typed language to begin with. Now since the browser is the target, file size is important, preventing Elm from simply shipping its own runtime + standard library.

Are you confused or am I confused? Elm does ship it's own runtime and standard library. Or at least it used to.

Yeah, true_religion seems confused/misinformed.

Whoops, I must be confused. I thought Elm compiled to Javascript, and didn't implement a custom runtime.

Elm does compile to JavaScript, but does come with it's own runtime on top of it and standard library.

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