Why is Elm such a delightful programming language?

Elm is a programming language created by Evan Czaplicki and a recurring definition used to describe it is:

“A delightful language for reliable web applications.” - Elm website.

I like this description because it shows the philosophy of the language and its community. A formal definition could be something like: Elm is a pure functional programming language with immutable data structure, soundness type system, currying, and blah blah blah. But instead, the author preferred to highlight his real intention: to create a safe language that web developers feel pleasure in using it. The rest is a consequence of that!

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