I'm curious if you tried out ReasonML[0] at all, for any length of time, before Elm, or even after.

https://reasonml.github.io/docs/en/what-and-why

I've really been digging slowly into ReasonML and the biggest gain I can see is that valid reason === valid ocaml (and there's some good server libraries out there for ocaml)

I also like that JSX is the templating language, not that it matters.

Also, have you had any success with manipulating Elm to output static HTML/CSS as well as JS? I know it can do it, but I've never been able to manipulate how it does it (most recent version I tried with: 0.18)