Re:Elm at a Billion Dollar Company with Vendr CTO Aaron White
by cercatrova on Tuesday October 11, 2022 @01:29PM
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There was no response on that thread. I wanted to see what people actually think of Elm these days, which is why I asked in this thread too.
Re:Elm at a Billion Dollar Company with Vendr CTO Aaron White
by 1-more on Tuesday October 11, 2022 @04:06PM
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It whips ass
Re:Elm at a Billion Dollar Company with Vendr CTO Aaron White
by hombre_fatal on Wednesday October 12, 2022 @03:03AM
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Seems more like a vendetta where you look for opportunities to post your epic “dunk”. I mean, how does it matter to you who uses Elm?
Re:Elm at a Billion Dollar Company with Vendr CTO Aaron White
by cercatrova on Wednesday October 12, 2022 @01:10PM
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The politics itself affects how I use Elm. If the creator who is the BDFL doesn't want to provide features that other frameworks do, and moreover shames people for suggesting them, that does not inspire much confidence in me that I should use it in production, so I don't. I thought something might have changed, but it appears it has not, so I will continue not using it.
>Who is still using Elm? I thought most would have stopped after the creator's holier-than-thou attitude [0], publicly shaming critics [1], only allowing certain people (read: core contributors) to use language features without monkey patching, and generally acting like only they know how to make a good language so everyone else should just sit down and shut up [2].
>[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22821447
>[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22824899
>[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16510267
[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33101786#33103338