I agree. Assuming this article is about the author’s experiences in early 2019, Elm has only had one release since then. They wouldn’t have missed out on much a

I agree. Assuming this article is about the author’s experiences in early 2019, Elm has only had one release since then. They wouldn’t have missed out on much at all by shipping with a forked compiler but would have gained a lot of time to migrate. The fork wouldn’t necessarily need to be public either.