Do we need to move away from Elm?

Re:Do we need to move away from Elm? by acheron on Saturday March 03, 2018 @02:58PM (#16511231)

Alternately, 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.

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Re:Do we need to move away from Elm? by pmarreck on Saturday March 03, 2018 @04:45PM (#16511794)

> 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.)

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Re:Do we need to move away from Elm? by always_good on Saturday March 03, 2018 @03:10PM (#16511301)

I'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.

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