Elm and the Future of Open Source (With Evan Czaplicki) – Developer Voices [video](youtube.com)
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Elm and the Future of Open Source (With Evan Czaplicki) – Developer Voices [video]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0SUM4869ODc
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What's The State Of Elm?
I love Elm but I think it's pretty clear that Evan is effectively declaring it as abandonware because he couldn't figure out a business model to sustain him.
What’s Evan Working On?
Sounds like he's talking to a handful of companies that he knows uses Elm and doing some tinkering without any defined objectives.
I love Elm but I think it's pretty clear that Evan is effectively declaring it as abandonware because he couldn't figure out a business model to sustain him.
What’s Evan Working On?
Sounds like he's talking to a handful of companies that he knows uses Elm and doing some tinkering without any defined objectives.
Where's the transcript?
For "What's The State Of Elm?", the developer only explains why there hasn't been a release for 5 years:
- He felt his work wasn't recognized enough by the company he worked for.
- He created a foundation to collect donations, but felt he would not feel at ease with that.
- He has one sentence about the covid: "Okay, and so we did have a pandemic, so maybe that's the fact."
- His work was a long-term investment that did not "meet the needs or the demands of everybody else".
- He talked with many companies that used Elm. But he always got the response "The answer was always like, well, it's going pretty good. We're actually struggling a lot with our backend.".
I think his memory is failing him on this last point. I'd be extremely surprised that companies that used Elm could never find any fault with the language or the compiler. I can remember two essays where companies were glad for Elm, but with serious technical problems, like the inability to host private packages.