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		nyssos on Oct 8, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The Economics of Programming Languages [video] That's not the sense in which Elm is hostile. It's hostile as in 1990s Microsoft. There are lots of little things, but the big ones are: - the compiler detects whether it's compiling core libraries and disables some features if it's not - you can't choose your own package set, even locally

the_gipsy on Oct 11, 2023 | [–]

From a JavaScript ecosystem perspective, these choices are hostile.

Ideally Elm core development should have kept up to make up for these restrictions, but it didn't. Yet, IMHO, it was still the right choice.

culi on Oct 17, 2023 | [–]

Isn't the compiler open sourced? Can't someone simply work around this?

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