DEV Community

Discussion on: I am the author of Elm in Action. Ask Me Anything!

Collapse
 
rtfeldman profile image
Richard Feldman

What is the most difficult part about switching 100% to Elm?

Legacy code - there's rarely a good justification to porting really old code that doesn't get used anymore. (So we haven't really done it!)

Have you thought about going back to JS at some point (at least for an specific project)? I mean, maybe something was really complex/troublesome to build in Elm instead of Js?

Only for Node stuff, as Elm is only built for browsers right now.

For browsers, it's the opposite: I don't think I can ever go back. I can't predict the future or anything, but right now I have a really hard time seeing myself applying for a JS job ever again.

Collapse
 
alejandronanez profile image
Alejandro Ñáñez Ortiz

That was super quick!

Thanks Richard and thanks for pushing ELM forward <3