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Re:Why I’m Leaving Elm by btilly on Thursday April 09, 2020 @01:03PM (#22824680)
True.

But "if they all got together" is waving away the difficulty of getting them all together, cooperating, and working together. Open source projects are a lot more difficult to run than you might expect.

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Re:Why I’m Leaving Elm by yakshaving_jgt on Thursday April 09, 2020 @03:08PM (#22826051)
> Open source projects are a lot more difficult to run than you might expect.

Indeed. You pour thousands of hours of work into something and give it to the world for free, only to be met by “give us synchronous IO or we will throw our toys out of the pram!”

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Re:Why I’m Leaving Elm by kazinator on Friday April 10, 2020 @03:35PM (#22836555)
That specific example would just be laughable. "I gave you awesome asynchronous I/O; just write the five lines of code around a semaphore if you want it synchronous."
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