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Prezi was the first major adopter of Elm in industry. They hired the language author to work on it full-time. A few years later, they laid him off and deprecat
by hitekker 6y ago
Prezi was the first major adopter of Elm in industry. They hired the language author to work on it full-time.
A few years later, they laid him off and deprecated their Elm codebase.
- yakshaving_jgt 6y agoThat may be true (I'm not actually sure), but it's not at all clear to me why that matters. Elm won't be used in industry because the language designer used to work at a company and now he doesn't work there anymore? Perhaps I'm being obtuse, but this is a total non sequitur to me.
- sk5t 6y agoIt seems kind of... hubristic? for a company like Prezi to go out on a limb for an obscure language. Did they read PG's old essays about lisp and plan on repeating a fluke?
- hitekker 6y agoYep, vanity is the mark of the CTO who cares more about the elegance of their code, than the effectiveness of their business. Funnily enough, the next company that hired the maintainer and went all in on Elm makes even less money than Prezi and has even less of a name-brand.
- rtfeldman 6y agoPrezi was the first major investor in Elm (because they hired Evan) but definitely not the first major adopter. Source: back in 2015 I was personally in a meeting at Prezi's San Francisco office where Prezi employees were asking me (and two of my coworkers) about our experiences having adopted Elm at work, because they were considering doing so for the first time!