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This is what I am talking about.
10'000 years ago we were living an ice age. The prehistoric men didn't produce any CO2, yet our world has been warming up since then.
This CO2 thing is very convenient to come up with new taxes (to steal your money!)
But can you make parent-child communication with these mini TEA components like in React or Vue? It seems to me that we can't.
Good luck!
+ The language syntax is very nice and refreshing.
+ It's a joy to work with the compiler.
+ If it's compiling, it's working! No runtime exceptions.
+ Static typing!
+ Functional programming!
- The language doesn't have component composition (like in React or Vue) and you end up having huge chunks of spaghetti code (but to be fair, it kind of works because of the compiler).
- It's complicated to implement routing and to build a Single Page Application.
- Only pure functions in Elm, so doing API calls and generating random numbers are unnecessary hard.
- It's a pain to parse JSON.
- There is no variable shadowing, so naming your stuff is harder than it should be.
- Vue embraces HTML, Elm avoids HTML, and it's really a pain to build HTML view in Elm. <div><a href="hello">world</a></div> becomes div [] [ a [ href "hello" ] [ text 'world" ] ]
- There is a lack of leadership and community building in this project. We don't know what's going on and where the project is going. It's like a black box. No roadmap. All issues on Github, all posts on Elm Discourse get no response.
So in the end, Elm is an interesting beast, but I think it's too academical and not really practical for serious projects.
People burning cars and destroying property are not yellow vests, they are antifa groups and their job is to bring chaos to discredit the yellow vests movement.