Re:Elm changed my mind about unpopular languages
by fpoling on Monday February 19, 2018 @01:46PM
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Yet another problem is that for an unpopular language it is easy for its developers to introduce incompatible changes. If one does not have resources to fix the codebase, it is not much different from the developers abandoning the language.
Elm still at risk of such changes, witness fundamental change to it's event subscription model after 0.16.
Of cause, such incompatible changes may happen even with popular languages. But at least you know that you are not alone and there will be companies that support your version. Like, for example, the case of Python2, still supported and even installed by default on many systems instead of python3.
Elm still at risk of such changes, witness fundamental change to it's event subscription model after 0.16.
Of cause, such incompatible changes may happen even with popular languages. But at least you know that you are not alone and there will be companies that support your version. Like, for example, the case of Python2, still supported and even installed by default on many systems instead of python3.