I have to politely disagree. I have personally staked a lot of my career and livelihood in Elm and it has paid off quite well. I love the language clearly, but also being a part of a community of nice people has been amazing too. I have worked at 4 companies that use Elm, some of which turned into big successes imo. Programming in Elm is always how I have supported my family.

It is going really well! Whenever I hear Elm can't be done, I am always a bit baffled. I am right here! Look at me! I am doing it!

I really don't like such comments that like any nuance.

I know multiple companies that use Elm and many people depend on them for their livelihood.

I would not recommend it due because it has never been a really open source project and only the core maintainers were allowed to write libraries that interfaced with JS apis without the need of ports.

Still, it baffles me how many people would chime in and feel compelled to comment regardless of the fact that hundreds of projects out there make money with Elm.

There were (are?) multiple core contributors. A person at my previous company even got to spend one day a week or something contributing.

But even with multiple people, I did get the impression it's not exactly a committee when it comes to what changes get merged.