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Elm's last meaningful release, 0.19, landed back around 2018, and much of what shipped since restricted how users could reach JavaScript.
A Director of Engineering who ran Elm in production still can't see why a company would newly pick it in 2026.
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Bernhardt's 2014 talk wasn't really about JavaScript dying. Its thesis: a fast bytecode-like subset (asm.js) becomes the universal compile target, the boundary between OS and browser dissolves, and JS survives as an invisible substrate you compile to but never touch.
The grades are split. WebAssembly proved him broadly right on direction. But one engineer flags the catch: Wasm still can't touch the DOM, so JavaScript glue isn't going anywhere — the prediction's timeline is slipping.