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

358 points ofalkaed | 6 comments | 11 Oct 25 22:16 UTC | HN request time: 0.001s | source | bottom

Just curious and who knows, maybe someone will adopt it or develop something new based on its ideas.
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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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1. 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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2. sauercrowd ◴[12 Oct 25 07:40 UTC] No.45556131[source]▶
What's "the Elm architecture"?
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3. fodkodrasz ◴[12 Oct 25 08:58 UTC] No.45556616[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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4. davesnx ◴[12 Oct 25 11:01 UTC] No.45557230[source]▶
OCaml / Reason (Melange)
5. acemarke ◴[12 Oct 25 15:06 UTC] No.45558718{3}[source]▶
Correct - Elm was one of several inspirations for Redux:

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

6. spooky_deep ◴[12 Oct 25 18:21 UTC] No.45560462{3}[source]▶
Yes it was too rigid. Too much boiler plate. The design space of functional UI is still being explored.