2 ms·
There are many decisions about Elm (the language and the development process) that I'm personally not crazy about. However, with so many asking "why are open so
by tgecho 9y ago
There are many decisions about Elm (the language and the development process) that I'm personally not crazy about. However, with so many asking "why are open source maintainers burning out?" I think it's a bit obnoxious for us as a community to criticize someone's chosen style for working on their free gift to us all.
- quickthrower2 9y agoI believe he is paid full time to work on elm. I might be wrong. But if so burn out should be less of an issue.
- hellofunk 9y agoThe issue is that after awhile, a language should not be an individual person's gift to the world. It's a tool, after all. People and companies use and depend on it; users should be given greater freedoms or voices. It's not a piece of art to marvel at; it's something to be tugged on by many angles to create real work by people other than the language author. In most languages, like C++, Javascript, Clojure, Elixir -- you find a single person who created the language, and then the real guts of how the industry actually uses it are the results of a large community; the original author usually isn't the sole source of best practices.