Ask HN: What Happened to Elm?

I remember years ago I spent sometime to learn it as I was curious how a purely functional front-end language feels like, and genuinely thought it had a good chance of being massively adapted in the near future, especially with what seemed like a vibrant community. However, I got distracted by a data science career and toolchain. Am in the process of starting my first SaaS as a solo founder and was looking at what languages to use and was surprised to see that Elm…seems dead? As an example I did a search on hackernews and it hardly got mentioned in the last year (both comments and posts!) Am wondering if anyone can provide some more light on what happened to the language? Is it a safe bet? And what is a suitable good replacement for it?
Story Published at: February 10, 2023 at 09:31PM