On January 12th, Flavio Corpa ( kvothe ) reached out on the #nix channel of the Elm Slack asking for help to make Nix and Parcel work together since he really wanted to use Simon Lydell's elm-safe-virtual-dom in his projects. Presumably, he read Juliano Solanho 's ( omnibs ) post , on NoRedInk's blog, about adopting lydell/elm-safe-virtual-dom that got him excited about the prospects. He had some issues with browsers and auto translation of content that lydell/elm-safe-virtual-dom might be able to fix. I had recently finished rewriting elm2nix and was on the lookout for opportunities to apply my freshly acquired knowledge so I felt it was fortuitous timing for me that his request was made when I was most able to help. I approached my solution in two parts: Rewriting the project to use dwayne/elm2nix . Adopting lydell/elm-safe-virtual-dom . If you have Nix installed, you can try out the final result by executing: nix run github:dwayne/elm-countries-quiz Let's get into it.…