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People make this joke every single time Elm comes up. Even if you somehow meant it in earnest, which wouldn't make sense here, it exposes you as someone who co
by always_good 9y ago
People make this joke every single time Elm comes up.
Even if you somehow meant it in earnest, which wouldn't make sense here, it exposes you as someone who couldn't even be bothered to click the OP link.
- acheron 9y agoAlternately, it exposes the creator of Elm as someone who should have thought harder about naming, and not chosen the name of a very well known piece of software that predates theirs by a few decades.
- always_good 9y agoI'm not sure it does. I think people use Elm to signal to fellow oldtimers that they were indeed around when people used that email client, DAE remember? I'm not even sure I've ever seen a HN submission about the email client. And they're in such different niches that you, precisely, have to write a comment without clicking in to the article. At which point, what value are you contributing to the discussion? You're basically suggesting that choosing a different name would increase the odds of someone being more relevant when writing a comment based on a submission title. Not very compelling. These comments just get downvoted where they belong. One of the worst aspects of HN are top-voted arguments that have nothing to do with the subject matter of the article. We don't need more of those.
- pmarreck 9y ago> that predates theirs by a few decades Have you seen Evan? He's like 12. (Sarcasm because I'm 45 and now everyone around his age looks like 12.)