On: Learning Elm by porting a medium-sized web frontend from React (2019)

[matsemann]

Now you're moving the goalpost. You said it was impossible to use in production. Which is clearly wrong.

[ISV_Damocles → matsemann]

I am just clarifying why I consider it impossible.

Production is not some place you're supposed to cowboy code, but instead have a reasonable expectation that you will be able to continue supporting it for as many years as it operates, and it's impossible for anyone to responsibly use technology with known limitations that have bitten other real engineering teams that they can find zero workarounds for.

If you don't consider that an impossibility for a production environment, then I certainly wouldn't want to work with you on a team with production responsibilities.

[marc136 → ISV_Damocles]

Zero workarounds seems overly dramatic, here are a few: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39567011

If you want to rely on them for every possible future requirement or rather want to pick another tool is another question :D

Anyways, just building the compiler without that check was also not that hard.