I just released http://elmalytics.xyz, which has some statistics on Elm usage (particularly in Github open source projects)
As you can see, the number of contributions continues to grow nearly exponentially. I don't think Elm is going away any time very soon :) On Sunday, November 6, 2016 at 9:01:42 AM UTC+11, Zacqary Adam Xeper wrote: > > Hey Elmos, > > I've finally gotten an opportunity to pitch Elm to my fairly large dev > team. I feel like I'm prepared to make the case for it against a lot of > objections: i.e. how will we learn yet another programming language, do we > really need something that never throws exceptions, etc. etc. > > The one thing I'm not really sure I'm prepared to answer is how I can be > sure that Elm isn't just another CoffeeScript or Dart, and in 2 or 3 years > we'll have an impossible time hiring anyone who knows how to use it because > everyone's going to go back to JavaScript. > > How do I convince Elm skeptics that this thing is here to stay? I can do a > great job of incorporating a small bit of Elm code into our stack to show > how great it is, but they won't even let me merge it into prod unless I can > make the case for its longevity. > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Elm Discuss" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
