ElmCast/elm-vim may be unmaintained

[andys8]

Hi there,

my understanding is that the vim plugin ElmCast/elm-vim is currently not maintained. I'm not sure to which degree its features are currently working or broken. Some of its core features rely on elm-oracle and deoplete-elm - both broken since elm 0.19. (This may also be relevant for other plugins listed here and completion in elm-mode for emacs is therefore not working).

Code Frequency

Issues

See issues like

• Is elm-vim plug-in abandoned? ElmCast/elm-vim#189
• Elm 0.19 not supported ElmCast/elm-vim#182
• Status of project ElmCast/elm-vim#150 (maintainership transferred)

Alternatives

Forks

There exist forks of ElmCast/elm-vim like https://github.com/Zaptic/elm-vim

Elm Language Server

There is elm-language-server which can be used with many editors and instructions for vim clients. I would personally recommend this approach and collected a list of instructions how to setup tooling in elm-tooling/elm-vim.

Ale

dense-analysis/ale contains an elm make (only) linter

[MrMatten]

Most functionality has become useless after the transition to elm (vs elm-make, elm-repel etc). What do work is indentation and colour scheme (maybe more)

[MrMatten]

Would be great if we could give some attention to one of the forks still being maintained. I will follow the one you linked to, if they have an interest in keeping at least base functionality up to date

[jcornaz]

https://github.com/Zaptic/elm-vim readme states:

It appears that ElmCast/elm-vim is no longer being updated and does not support Elm 0.19. This fork has been updated for Elm 0.19 and includes some other changes. No major development is planned at the moment but we do plan to keep up with necessary changes and merge requests are welcome.

Considering that ElmCast/elm-vim still does not support elm 0.19 and looking at that readme and the state of the commit/issue/pr activity, I think it is quite clear that @Zaptic fork is a better alternative to @ElmCast original project.

Maybe it is time to update the readme so that it points to @Zaptic' fork?

[evancz]

I have not looked into #6 deeply, but they say that is the more updated version.