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Discussion on: Can I do FP in my language?

 
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Kasey Speakman

It's good for applications, maybe less so for content-based websites. (Based on your preact post and concern with deployed size.) Give it a try for some internal tools and see what you think.

I've found that where the difficulty lies in Elm is backwards from most UI frameworks. Most of them are easy/moderate to get going, but become increasingly hard to maintain over time. Elm requires a little bit more effort to get started up front (adjusting to FP mainly), but maintenance difficulty doesn't increase much over time. Maintenance is still work, but not particularly risky work.

We use it production, both internal and customer-facing.