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Elm seems pretty much dead to me, tbh, which has prevented me from even trying it for the last few years and I know I'm not the only one.

There was a major loss of confidence and enthusiasm due to things like this. Very much not a project to build a business on

https://dev.to/kspeakman/elm-019-broke-us--khn

Honestly it's better now that it's dead. The 0.18->0.19 transition was a big disaster. Imagine if we got one of those ever year for the last five years! I think that's what would have happened if Evan had continued to be able to produce new versions.

Dead means it's super stable. Stable is good.

I believe the important part is not the date so much as the copyright.

Basically, if you build on Elm, you're living inside Evan's personal project.

There are upsides (Evan did a great job designing the language) and downsides (Evan's goal isn't being a maintainer, and he locked the ecosystem in such a way that many things can't be done without him).

He stopped caring in 2021