[nymalt]

re famous Elm error messages. This one I got when I was learning Elm 4-5 years ago.

  Elm uses a different name for the “not equal” operator:
  
  5|   text "Hello!" != "balbla"
                     ^^
  Switch to (/=) instead.
  
  Note: Our (/=) operator is supposed to look like a real “not equal” sign (≠). I
  hope that history will remember (!=) as a weird and temporary choice.

Wondering if it is just me, or it really is passive-aggressive? It was the first red flag for me.

upd: formatting

[spokeonawheel]

its fairly direct. And not wrong.

Passive aggressive might be like this

"there are some languages that feel the need to use !=. They have the 'opinion' that this was a good idea, look at them. They are so cute trying to be a real language with such *interesting* design choices"

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The note absolutely is, the use of `/=` is just consistent with Haskell though, which to me makes perfect sense.