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We are silent legion. We have no runtime errors, we don't cry, we don't collect github stars, nor fancy logos for packages.

There has been nothing even close to Elm for building stable and maintainable projects! I am using it for 5+ years now, and since 0.19.1 came out my life became so much easier and straight forward. It works as advertised, its fast, its clean.

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I'd always been curious about it but never really took the plunge. How well does it scale? Have you built any significantly complex applications with it?

I work on the app mentioned in the podcast. It is roughly 600k lines of Elm. I have previously worked at bigger, more well known companies, on apps 1/3 the size if not smaller. I've seen more frequent, and more reliable refactors in this Elm code than any I've worked in before. I'd easily take 1M lines of Elm over 100k lines of any JS framework, and I've worked with most of them.

Saying this unironicly it kind of sounds like a cult.

Or they don’t care about the politics of a tool and instead use it because they get things done.

People who love drama seem to hate to see it.

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