The situation should be much improved now in 0.18. I don't see it mentioned
in the release notes, but from the beta announcement
<https://gist.github.com/evancz/8032a3ac6eb7a4ac8e0956ed6d386798>:

Fix elm-make bug where build artifacts could get corrupted, requiring
> delete of elm-stuff/build-artifacts/
>

But it appears that we still need to delete elm-stuff sometimes. So it's
probably a workaround for more than one bug.

Anthony, the situation you describe sounds like it must be related to
elm-package. If you can reproduce your problem and there isn't already a
relevant bug report
<https://github.com/elm-lang/elm-package/issues?utf8=%E2%9C%93&q=is%3Aissue%20is%3Aopen>,
I would recommend opening one!

On Mon, Nov 28, 2016 at 10:02 AM, Rex van der Spuy <[email protected]>
wrote:

>
> I'm assuming this should actually never happen.
>>
>
> Yes, "have you tried deleting elm-stuff?" is a bit of oral tradition
> folklore that can magically cure all manner of ailments.
> It's Elm's take on "Have you tried turning it off and on again?"
> It burned me as a beginner too, and has been a problem since I started
> using Elm with 0.15
>
> Does anyone know if it's possible to prevent this from being necessary?
> Or is there a technical reason why the complier can't forcibly clear the
> elm-stuff cache?
>
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