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> I think Luke's experience in that blog post is certainly atypical.

> the negative posts tend to garner a lot more attention than positive posts

On the other hand, my team was very unsatisfied with Elm and when we bring those issues to community we were quickly asked to leave. Of course it is fair but please note that negative opinions are discouraged and thus not common. We just disengaged from community and started elsewhere.

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Sorry, I didn't mean to say that nobody has negative experiences with it, but that "X considered harmful" style posts tend to get more attention on sites than positive experiences generally do.

What was something that left you unsatisfied with Elm? The biggest one for me until relatively recently was handling state updating state from leaf components, it was fairly cumbersome to have `(Model, Cmd, ExternalMsg)` in lots of places. At work we recently switched to the Effect pattern (https://sporto.github.io/elm-patterns/architecture/effects.h...) which has alleviated a lot of the overhead.

FWIW the creator of the Effect pattern has some pretty deep reservations about Elm (http://reasonableapproximation.net/2019/10/20/the-effect-pat...). His reservations end up being the same ones that get hashed out all the time over HN (JS interop and the development model).

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