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> It was bad enough that they got it wrong, but then Evan doubled down by dedicating the opening of his next conference talk to mocking the users who were unhap
by richbell 4y ago
> It was bad enough that they got it wrong, but then Evan doubled down by dedicating the opening of his next conference talk to mocking the users who were unhappy about the changes: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uGlzRt-FYto https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uGlzRt-FYto
> The part where he mocks a commenter for asking "Is Evan killing Elm's momentum?" is weirdly prescient, given that these events ultimately did mark the slowdown of the Elm community. Elm development came to a near halt about a year later.
Wow, that was hard to watch. He takes people being passionate about Elm and discussing potential issues and mocks them.
If I was a proponent of Elm that felt uneasy about its direction at the time, this would have made it easy to walk away from.