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    Ask HN: Abandoned/dead projects you think died before their time and why?

    358 points ofalkaed | 11 comments | 11 Oct 25 22:16 UTC | HN request time: 0.393s | source | bottom

    Just curious and who knows, maybe someone will adopt it or develop something new based on its ideas.
    1. hshdhdhehd ◴[12 Oct 25 06:19 UTC] No.45555738[source]▶
    Elm programming language. Arguably not dead but somewhat incomplete and not actively worked on.
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    2. zem ◴[12 Oct 25 07:27 UTC] No.45556066[source]▶
    opa, along the same lines - really nice ML based language for isomorphic full stack web development.
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    3. spooky_deep ◴[12 Oct 25 07:37 UTC] No.45556112[source]▶
    A few commits recently.

    There are lots of competing MLs you can use instead:

    - F# (Fable)

    - ReasonML

    - OCaml (Bucklescript)

    - Haskell

    - PureScript

    IMO the problem with Elm was actually The Elm Architecture.

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    4. sauercrowd ◴[12 Oct 25 07:40 UTC] No.45556131[source]▶
    What's "the Elm architecture"?
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    5. PufPufPuf ◴[12 Oct 25 08:03 UTC] No.45556270[source]▶
    Yeah, Opa was wildly ahead of its time, I actually just wrote a top level comment about it. Basically Next.js+TypeScript+modern ECMAScript features, but in 2011.
    6. indy ◴[12 Oct 25 08:41 UTC] No.45556507[source]▶
    Try the Roc language https://www.roc-lang.org/

    It's at a very early stage of development but looks promising

    7. fodkodrasz ◴[12 Oct 25 08:58 UTC] No.45556616{3}[source]▶
    A simple UI programming pattern, with a circular, unidirectional data flow. It is very rigid by design, to be side-effect free, functional, unidirectional:

    https://guide.elm-lang.org/architecture/

    I'm no frontend guy, but I think it did/was inspire(d) react (redux?) maybe. Corrections on this very welcome

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    8. donatj ◴[12 Oct 25 10:15 UTC] No.45557001[source]▶
    It's been a number of years but my understanding was they kind of killed all the momentum it had by removing support for custom operators which broke everyone's code?
    9. davesnx ◴[12 Oct 25 11:01 UTC] No.45557230[source]▶
    OCaml / Reason (Melange)
    10. acemarke ◴[12 Oct 25 15:06 UTC] No.45558718{4}[source]▶
    Correct - Elm was one of several inspirations for Redux:

    - https://redux.js.org/understanding/history-and-design/prior-...

    11. spooky_deep ◴[12 Oct 25 18:21 UTC] No.45560462{4}[source]▶
    Yes it was too rigid. Too much boiler plate. The design space of functional UI is still being explored.